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And they know that their National Government is going to be a government of the people, a government by the people, and most of all, a government for the people.

I spoke of my dream of enlarging the meaning of life for every American.

Two years ago your President said that the rights of all of our citizens must be protected.

In fact, you have given us the greatest Congress in the history of this country.

We are blessed in more ways, I think, than we have ever been before

There, we have 300,000 young Americans in South Vietnam; many thousands more in the Navy off the coast.

I will sign at the White House a bill to make all of our highways safer for all of you.

America is growing. America is prospering.

They seek the chance to be committed and the chance to be uncommon, and a society worthy of their courage will give them a chance to be both.

How lucky, how fortunate, and how blessed we are that we can live in the United States of America.

Tonight 20 million of our Negro fellow citizens have the power of the United States Government behind their right to vote for the first time in the history of this land.

It might be worthwhile for us to just take an inventory of all the blessings that all America has.

This is my faith: that we, the American people, have the courage, have the fortitude, have the patience and the persistence to see Vietnam through to the end; that we shall look forward and not backward.

I want to thank all of you good people for voting for Congressman Love.

And, we are working to build community health centers where those who suffer can receive care and compassionate guidance.

And before this session of Congress comes to an end, I hope to sign into law the third historic civil rights bill of the Johnson administration.

If anyone, if anyone will show me the time schedule when aggression and infiltration and 'might makes right' will be halted, then I, as President of this country will lay on the table the schedule for the withdrawal of all of our forces…