In this situation hesitation and vacillation could mean death for many of our people, as well as many of the citizens of other lands.

But we do not intend to be buried.

That is why the hopes and the concern of this entire hemisphere are, on this Sabbath-Sunday, focused on the Dominican Republic.

I have just come from a meeting with the leaders of both parties in the Congress which was held in the Cabinet Room in the White House.

You are needed to help shape that future.

I want to express the great appreciation to those Members of the Congress who gave their support and their cooperation on this action in this deficiency bill.

I am this afternoon signing into law the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act of 1965, appropriating $2,227,000,000 which has just been approved by the Congress.

Unless the bill becomes law today, on this last day of April, the lives of these 8 million across the Nation would be very adversely affected.

This means there will be no delayed checks for any of our citizens.

There is a special urgency for signing this measure immediately.

Without thought of gain, without thought of conquest, without wish for aggrandizement, we have committed our lives, our property, our resources, and our sacred honor to the freedom and peace of other men, indeed to the freedom and peace of…

Admiral Raborn is a team-builder and he is a team player.

We were founded as a Nation upon an ideal.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said near the end of her life that anyone who believes that in every human being there is a spark of the divine must believe that to enable him to develop his potentialities to the maximum is the highest purpose that…

I want you to know I am very grateful to each of you for the sacrifices you have made in assuming these responsibilities.

Public service requires much dedication, much devotion, and a great deal of self-sacrifice.

I have always opposed the poll tax.

I am pleased also to announce today that the war on poverty is setting up 10 new Job Corps conservation camps in nine States.

We deplore fighting wherever it takes place.

We who knew him knew that he was a gallant fighter, a man who dedicated his life both as a newsman and as a public official to an unrelenting search for truth.

I urge the people of the United States to give public and private expression on that day to the abiding love and gratitude which they bear for their mothers by display of the flag at their homes or other suitable places and through prayer…

Our enemies would have you believe that we are following policies that are ill-advised, but we are following the same policies in Asia that we followed in Europe, that we followed in Turkey and Greece and Iran.

We feel very friendly toward the people of India and the Government of India; toward the people of Pakistan and the Government of Pakistan.

I do sometimes wonder how some people can be so concerned with our bombing a cold bridge of steel and concrete in North Viet-Nam, but never open their mouths about a bomb being placed in our embassy in South Viet-Nam.

We must make certain that there are jobs which graduates of this program can fill.