We want all Americans to understand the importance of their cooperation.

It provides a very modest rate increase to put the entire parcel post system on a sound financial footing.

There will be some who say that we are pressuring you and threatening you and intimidating you.

I am very proud to accept this Liberty Bell this morning.

It promises better parcel post service to all Americans.

So, as a reminder of our meeting, I am asking Dr. Martin Essex, the national chairman of the school savings program, to give each of you a savings stamp album bearing one stamp--and my signature.

I believe that the Commission is to be congratulated on having arrived at so equitable and satisfactory a solution.

More than eight million Germans followed him and helped to build our Nation.

His government has just made another German contribution to American culture--a large gift to the Metropolitan Opera.

It is my great pleasure to extend best wishes through Averell Harriman to the Americans of German descent who today honor the memory of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.

I wish you all well.

The descendants of these men and women strengthen our economic and political life, enlarge our culture and advance our science.

I promise you that we are not going to allow them to go on unchecked.

I do not believe that a man should have to pay with his life or with his health for his right to earn a living for his family.

I am happy and pleased to honor that request.

Develop an effective system for redistributing Government property to the places where it is needed most.

No national strategy against crime can succeed if we do not restore more of our first offenders to productive society.

The best law enforcement has little value if prison sentences are only temporary and embittering way stations for men whose release means a return to crime.