We must avoid complacency and we must never be quite satisfied with our educational institutions, no matter how good they may be.

I request that leaders of business groups, labor unions, women's clubs, and civic associations, and all consumers join, along with farm families and other rural people, in this observance, as evidence of the strong ties that bind urban and…

I ask all our people to dedicate themselves to renewed and continuous efforts to improve the quality of education.

I do hereby designate the week of November 20 through November 26, 1964, as National Farm-City Week;

Education is basic to every facet of our individual lives and of the life of our Nation.

I urge that such programs place special emphasis on the increasing importance of protecting our Nation's soil, water, and timber so that our estimated 340 million citizens of the year 2000 may enjoy abundance then as we do now.

I don't know what impressions you may have brought here--or what impressions you may be taking away now.

So America is not an old, contented, complacent land--ready to stand still.

America is young--as you are young--with its future before it, as your future is before you.

People in other countries sometimes forget what we in America can never forget: that America has been built by sons and daughters of every continent and every country.

Well, I am the father of Lynda and Luci Johnson--and I am known as the man who is the White House dogs' best friend.

It is good to have you here at the White House with us this evening.

We live together today in 50 States as one people--one people, united and indivisible.

Nothing makes a house happier than young people--and this house is a very happy home right now with all of you here on our lawn.

I would hope that no other nation would think that we are a nation of warmongers and that we have any evil designs on conquest or domination.

Good morning. You are mighty welcome here.

I think it is important to the future of our economy and to our relations with the other nations in the world.

I think the American people are perfectly careful and prudent people and they can very well judge those matters themselves.

I will be very happy for Mr. McCone, the Director of CIA, to brief him at any time that he cares to be briefed.

Africa through the OAU has shown its capacity to deal through peaceful means with African problems, including such disputes as have arisen among its members.

I and the people of the United States extend to this Organization our best wishes for continued progress toward your high aims.

I EXTEND, through you, to the representatives of the nations and peoples of Africa gathered in Cairo, the friendly greetings of the Government and people of the United States of America.

Your report deals with issues which are important in carrying out this Nation's commitment to deploy science and technology boldly and effectively in the interest of the Nation's welfare.

The Water Resources Research Act of 1964, which I have approved today, fills a vital need...it will create local centers of water research. It will enlist the intellectual power of universities and research institutes in a nationwide…

The Federal Government has a special responsibility to conduct its affairs with an enlightened concern for the critical part it now plays in the utilization of the Nation's manpower.