Our determination to resist aggression must be matched by our compassion for its helpless victims.

Throughout Fiscal Year 1967, the National Endowment for the Arts worked closely with private foundations, organizations and individuals, seeking to increase appreciation and support of the arts in the United States.

Let me thank you first of all for coming out on a winter's night to warm this house with friendship.

The thing our people want most tonight, Mr. Prime Minister, of course, is peace in the world.

The report offers abundant proof that the Endowment has made good use of its resources.

Diseases long conquered by science still ravage cities and villages around the world.

Our two nations are as close as ever.

No matter how well they have concealed their activities, we will root them out.

Now the time has come to act.

Americans--of all races--want and deserve better law enforcement.

The Plan I forward today moves in the direction recommended by two distinguished groups.

We need to learn more about how to treat it.

No matter how well organized they are, we will be better organized.

Two familiar substances—medicine and household products—are among the most dangerous causes of accidental poisoning among children.

I now propose that a single Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs be established in the Department of Justice.

The response of the Federal Government must be unified.

We need to be much more alert to the dangers of accidental poisoning.

We need a modern and efficient instrument of Government to transform our plans into action.

Now this year--this year---this Year of our Lord 1968, the forces of law and order must capture the initiative in the battle against crime.

By the time the Governors get here, we hope we will have made substantial progress on our safe streets bill.

I direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, and I invite State and local governments and organizations, to participate actively in programs designed to promote better protection against accidental poisonings, particularly…

The closest cooperation between the United States and the European Communities is necessary to ensure that international adjustment takes place under conditions of continued economic growth with financial stability.

Deaths by accidental poisoning among children under five years of age has declined 20 percent.

I recently signed into law a bill to establish a National Commission on Product Safety whose job it will be to identify dangerous household products.

The frontline against crime is the statehouse, and is the city hall, and is the police precinct, and is the home.