I hope that your great voice of leadership, and your ministers in pulpits across the land, will urge all of your members to live up to their responsibilities as citizens of this country.

I want to assure you that the Federal Government will continue to strengthen the Nation's ability to resist crime.

There are other issues, I think, that we are going to write in the history of the sixties-like housing, urban progress, conservation, education, and health, and a dozen others.

This house is never happier than when it honors freedom and when it acknowledges leadership.

No one need doubt the American commitment to Europe's future.

I have welcomed you on many occasions, Mr. Chancellor, as a statesman of the modern world, but always most of all as our friend.

We stand with our allies in NATO, firmly dedicated to a common defense, because we believe in firmness and in unity lie the best hopes of peace in the world.

Our new minimum wage law, in my judgment, will bring a larger piece of this country's prosperity, and a greater share of personal dignity, to millions of our workers, their wives, and their children.

Until today, minimum wage laws benefited some 30 million workers.

Thomas Jefferson called his days in the Presidency \a splendid misery\"--and sometimes I agree.

That bill guaranteed a minimum hourly wage--the munificent, magnificent sum of 25 cents an hour--25 cents an hour!

The new minimum wage--$64 a week--will not support a very big family.

Today we have met here in the Cabinet Room to see the President sign into law a new minimum wage.--One dollar and sixty cents an hour.

The straight fact is that a fair minimum wage doesn't hurt business in any way.

One of the first contributions I made in the legislative field when I came to Washington was when we passed the first minimum wage bill through the Congress of the United States.

We are not going out of the securities market.

This is what our great President Franklin Roosevelt was thinking about one day in April when he addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution by saluting them as 'My fellow immigrants.'

We welcome it--for we hear, in that sound, the echo of 1776.