I propose, therefore, that we increase social security benefits across the board for the entire 21 million beneficiaries now on the rolls.

The real key to solving the problem will finally lie in your hands.

Together we will guarantee older Americans the care that they need and the care that they deserve.

The time for action has come.

So let us begin today.

Automobile accidents kill or injure more of our children and teenagers than any single disease that we have in this country.

Medical care will free millions from their miseries.

The second right is the right to a decent home.

I do not see Medicare as a problem.

We hope that never again will children and grandchildren have to sacrifice their future to pay the medical bills of the older members of their family.

It is fitting that we should come together once more on the eve of a great new era for older Americans.

Let us start here and now to build a new ideal of what ought to be the meaning of growing old.

The third right is the right to a meaningful retirement.

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said of the Presidency: 'It is a splendid misery.'

Ninety percent of all the people 65 or over in this country--17,200,000 persons--are now signed up to pay $3 a month for the voluntary part of the program covering physicians' fees.

People are getting killed every day on the roads in Texas, Kansas, California, Nebraska, and the other States.

Complacency must never stand in the way of progress, in the way of safety, or in the way of doing something about this very difficult problem.

The first right is the right to an adequate income.