Our system in this land is the most successful that any nation has ever known.

So, to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, and to the members of the House Ways and Means Committee, and to the membership of the two Houses respectively, I say to you, on behalf of a grateful people, you have done your job well.

A healthy economy is free of inflation.

So, this afternoon I want to personally congratulate the entire Congress for its very prompt and its very efficient and effective action on this matter.

Mrs. Johnson and I are proud of the Nation's response to Head Start.

I want to call on all Americans to join with us in declaring Wednesday, June 30, Head Start Day, and to give wholehearted support to this vital undertaking.

All Youth Corps programs have a common purpose—that is, to provide employment to young people while they finish their high school education, to provide full-time work and training to those who have dropped out of school and who lack the…

It is a great pleasure for me this morning to welcome to the White House you three young people whose personal stories, I believe, help to explain what the war on poverty is all about.

So, what are we doing? Well, we are determined to use our wealth, and to use our power, and to use our ingenuity to change these conditions.

Teenage unemployment stands at 14 1/2 percent—more than three times the average for the population as a whole—and six times as many Negro youths as white youths are unemployed.

We look forward, in the days ahead, to getting the results which we have talked about.

I have today accepted the resignation of Secretary of the Army, Stephen Ailes, effective July 1st.

In 1958, when I presented this country's space proposals to the United Nations, I said then that we of America are determined that our quarrels and divisions here on this earth shall not be carried into this new and this very peaceful…

I am confident that the breakthrough in space will permit all mankind--in developed nations and emerging nations--to overcome and leave behind many obstacles that today retard human progress in health, that retard human progress in…

The need of man--the need of these times in which we live--is not for arms races, and it is not for moon races.

Another subject. I am pleased that the Congress has now completed action on the reduction of excise taxes.

We are pleased with the balance of payments and it is exceeding our expectations.

This morning I am going to take a moment to express my deep, personal gratitude and my admiration to the man whose ability and whose great brain, whose energy and whose diligence, whose imagination and initiative and abiding faith…

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation . . . Barriers between us will fall as our sights rise to space.

From that perspective, when the sun shines in all of its purity, how small, how meaningless seem the differences among men and among nations down below.

You are symbols of a new world.

I exercise it rarely and only when required.

Employment last month, I believe, is down something like over 4,000 employees in the Federal Government.

I hope it is not too much of a disappointment for you younger members of the families to settle for the White House instead of the ranch house.

I firmly believe in the independence and the integrity of the legislative branch of the Government, and I promise you that I shall always respect this.