Lyndon Johnson

So here he is and he is going to try to reform the HEW.

We will build 50,000 planes a year.

We do have a serious situation in Viet-Nam.

With that key we can begin to open the gates that now enclose the ghettos of despair.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964--guaranteeing equal employment opportunities-is a key to hope for millions of our fellow Americans.

This means that $1,360 per citizen has gone to Alaska since the earthquake.

And we shall overcome, and I am enlisted for the duration.

We need your help--and I am glad that you have responded out of a sense of duty to both your country and to humanity.

For only if we work together can we overcome the water shortage threat now facing 25 million citizens in the most populated section of our Nation.

This has been a very commendable American effort.

So I just want to observe finally, in closing, that we will, as long as I am President, Dr. Gardner, try to provide an educational opportunity for every youngster in this country, regardless of the condition of his birth, the section he…

On this twenty-fifth anniversary of the Board, I am happy to extend my congratulations and best wishes.

Now, these are strong steps. But they are wise steps, and they must be taken together.

Now, if additional action is necessary your Federal Government will be prepared to act.

I said then that this was a time for action--a time for action to meet and to overcome the challenge of this great drought.

Our experts believe these measures are sufficient, if they are accompanied by aggressive conservation measures at the same time.

I will reenlist in your army of excellence, and we all stand ready to march with you under your guidance.

We shall renew neither ourselves, nor society, nor a troubled world, unless we share a vision of something worth saving.

This administration intends to bring the healing miracle of modern medicine to everyone in this country, no matter how remotely they live from the city.

We are prepared to provide an emergency pump pipeline system from the Passaic Lake wells.

This was a time for action--a time for action to meet and to overcome the challenge of this great drought.

Third, to resolve the water problems between New York and Philadelphia we have reached an agreement to establish a 'strategic waterbank'.

Second, to ease the critical water crisis in northern New Jersey, I am directing the Chief of Engineers to install an emergency pump-pipeline system at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey.

Finally, and in many ways most important, the Governors and the mayors of the drought stricken areas have agreed to increase their efforts to conserve their existing water supplies.

This administration hopes to provide the leadership for an environment that is free of the contamination which pollutes the water that we drink and the air that we breathe.