Now here is how the plan will affect you.

No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine.

The people of the United States love and voted for Harry Truman, not because he gave them hell--but because he gave them hope.

And it was only yesterday, at the request of some of my friends, I met with the leaders of the American Medical Association to seek their assistance in advancing the cause of one of the greatest professions of all--the medical…

I believe today that all America shares my joy that he is present now when the hope that he offered becomes a reality for millions of our fellow citizens.

It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: 'Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health.'

Because the need for this action is plain; and it is so clear indeed that we marvel not simply at the passage of this bill, but what we marvel at is that it took so many years to pass it.

In the terms of the Navy, for which we all have such great respect, I say, 'Well done.'

They have brought the Mariner 4 from idea to reality and have kept the vigil with it now through 2:28 days of flight.

Our first concern must be, and is, people.

A President must, in times like these, often weigh decisions that are great and that are grave--and most of the time they are grim.

But statistics are not our first concern.

I remain an optimist always about man and about man's future, and I have never been more optimistic than now.

I think I speak for every American when I tell you how very proud and how impressed, how grateful we are for what you and all the many members of your team have accomplished on the Mariner 4 mission.

I am very proud that since becoming President, I have found it possible to, on the basis of merit, appoint 114 women to major positions in this Government, and almost 3,000 other women have received appointments or promotions to the…

And where there is no vision the people perish.

Thank you so much for coming.

It is good to finally be here with you, and this house is honored today by the presence of such distinguished company.

No cynicism can corrode the promise that is beginning to gleam so brightly in the sun of this New World's new day.

I must confess that I am a little bit relieved that your photographs didn't show more signs of life out there.

The American woman has a challenging responsibility to meet in this country, whether she puts her knowledge to use in her home community or in Washington, matters very little.

Mankind's progress toward the distant stars of peace and reason must not, and shall not, be either delayed or diverted by those who would cast the shadow of fear across its path and have it fall in the darkness of war.

I looked yesterday at a number of women that I would hope could serve on the highest Court of our land--where one has never served.

We are striving to shelter and to save the gains that man has made while, at the same time, we are seeking to help man fulfill the promise within him, to fulfill that promise in peace and in freedom.

Our Nation must live by its vision, must live by its faith, or we won't live at all.