This High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 really gives us, for the first time in history, a coordinated program for improving the transportation system that we have today, and making it a better servant Of our people.

When President Stillman organized your American Federation of Teachers in 1916, the responsibility for teachers was very high, but, as I have just indicated, the rewards were quite low.

So we begin this morning to really plan the revolutionary advances of tomorrow.

I requested authorization for the Commerce Department to undertake a program of research and development.

I urge each community to study the needs of its schools and to use all the resources at its command to make equal educational opportunity a reality for all Americans.

It is imperative that each child in this land be afforded the opportunity to develop to the full extent of his individual potential capabilities.

It is our obligation as a Nation to make every reasonable effort to provide our children with the best possible physical and mental health care.

Our schools and colleges rest our hopes for the future: our highest aspirations for our children, for our country and for the world.

Upon it depends fulfillment for our nation and for every American citizen.

Modification of the 1954 convention in certain respects has been made advisable by reason, not only of experience in the application of the convention since its entry into force, but also of some relevant changes in the tax system of the…

Art is a nation's most precious heritage.

Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.

The arts and the humanities belong to the people, for it is, after all, the people who create them.

We have the resources and the incentive to give our children constantly improving medical care.

This new bill, creating the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities, gives us the power to turn some of those dreams and ideas into reality.

The best hope for the future of any country rests with its children.

The Secretary of Labor may investigate the employment practices of any Government contractor or subcontractor

Each contracting agency shall be primarily responsible for obtaining compliance with the rules, regulations, and orders of the Secretary of Labor

The Secretary of Labor shall be responsible for the administration of Parts II and III of this Order

The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin

I know that there is no cause to which you have been more devoted than the cause of equal opportunity.

Each Federal department and agency shall cooperate with the Attorney General in the performance of his functions under this Order and shall furnish him such reports and information as he may request.

It is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all qualified persons

All rules, regulations, orders, instructions, designations and other directives issued by the President's Council on Equal Opportunity relating to the implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shall remain in full force…

I hope that not a single day will be lost.