Lyndon Johnson

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.

A healthy economy is free of inflation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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…

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

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.

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.

As we of the executive branch ask respect for the division of executive responsibilities, I want all within the executive branch to hear me now say loud and clear, that we extend to the legislative branch that same respect.

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

This is a moment when the opportunity is open and beckoning for men of all nations to take together a walk toward peace in space.

In the Dominican Republic in the last 2 days there has been renewed, and repeated, and totally unjustified firing on the Inter-American Force.

I exercise it rarely and only when required.

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…

I have today accepted the resignation of Under Secretary of the Navy, Kenneth E. BeLieu, effective July 1st.

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.

The Governor of Georgia told me that before they were acting on requests for new facilities they were making very careful studies because their unemployment rate is down in a good many areas 2 percent or less.

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…

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.

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

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.

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.

The Vice President has been here—now can you hear me?