For those who have been denied equal access throughout the years to public facilities, I am proud to say that this administration has led the way in ripping down the barriers of discrimination.

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

Education, health, move them out of the slums and the poverty, provide housing, and beautify the land and make it something that is truly symbolic when we say 'America the Beautiful,' because we want this to be a good world.

And so long as I am your President I intend to preserve the rights of all of our citizens, and I intend to enforce the laws that protect all of our citizens--without regard to race, religion, region, or without fear or favor.

We do have a serious situation in Viet-Nam.

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.

It is one of the most difficult problems that faces our country and hasn't any easy answers.

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

We will do all this through the work of men and women like you--men and women who believe both in equal opportunity and equal responsibility and obligation.

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

First, at the request of the Governors of the drought-stricken States, I am today writing to Governor Ellington, the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, declaring certain portions of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and…

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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…

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

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.

This has been a very commendable American effort.

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.

I am confident that it will render equally signal service to the defense of our two countries in the years ahead.

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.

There is universal agreement that we should proceed at once.