Lyndon Johnson

I recommend a 4.5 percent pay increase for civilian employees effective October 1, 1967.

They come because Government offers unique opportunities for unselfish service.

To cope with the great outpouring of mail created by our country's increasing social and economic activity, we must have a modern, highly mechanized postal service.

The Postal Service is the key link of the Nation's commerce.

To do so requires that we achieve comparability with private pay levels--and that we do it in a way which does not endanger our unparalleled economic prosperity.

This year the Secretary of Defense has been conducting a searching review of the principles underlying the military compensation system.

But this record should give us no cause for complacency.

We must be able to attract and keep highly competent career employees.

The machinery of our Government has served us well. It has been the vehicle of the greatest progress and prosperity any nation has ever achieved.

We do not have such a postal service today.

We forget that we are still made of sinew and bone.

Physical fitness is too often overlooked in our modern society.

President Johnson, recognizing the vital role which Turkey plays within the NATO defense alliance, pledged the continuing assistance of the United States for the strengthening of Turkey's defense capabilities

There is more, much more, to be done.

Freedom from physical illness is not the same as physical fitness.

We seek better means to protect our bodies.

President Johnson reaffirmed the United States determination to continue to support the development efforts of Turkey by maintaining at a significant level its economic assistance

President Johnson described the situation in Vietnam and the efforts of the United States Government to bring about a peaceful settlement

Our country, our beloved America, needs to be stronger.

Your people won our hearts, as they had already earned the respect and the admiration of all the American people.

We are on a long uphill climb, and we are going to make it.

Now the benefits of this revolution in farm production are not limited to the grocery store or the family kitchen.

Survey markers and boring equipment on streets and sidewalks show that we are finally beginning to move.

There is a vigor and a momentum in Turkey today which your friends in America have long and enthusiastically applauded.

These things have been accomplished because the United States of America and its allies throughout the world have stood firm before the tide of aggression--and the tide has receded.