It is always legitimate to go to the American people with a program or any problem you have.

Everyone wishes to have the truth on his side, but it is not everyone that sincerely wants to be on the side of truth.

Placing the Community Relations Service within the Justice Department will enhance the ability of the Justice Department to mediate and conciliate and will insure that the Federal Government speaks with a unified voice in those tense…

I transmit herewith Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1966, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, and providing for reorganization of community relations functions in the area of civil rights.

It saps the body.

Our food aid programs have brought over 140 million tons of food to hungry people during the past decade.

I urge Congress to consider and debate these suggestions thoroughly and wisely in the hope and belief we can from them fashion a program that will keep free men free, and at the same time share our leadership and agricultural resources…

The present distribution of Federal civil rights responsibilities clearly indicates that the activities of the Community Relations Service will fit most appropriately in the Department of Justice.

That hunger and want--anywhere--are the eternal enemies of all mankind.

We must encourage a truly international effort to combat hunger and modernize agriculture.

I urge all who can help to join us.

The program I present today is designed to bring about that change.

Unless it is, more harm than good can be the end result.

Hunger poisons the mind.

The productive capacity of American agriculture can and should produce enough food and fiber to provide for: 1. domestic needs, 2. commercial exports, 3. food aid to those developing countries that are determined to help themselves, 4…

One new element in today’s world is the threat of mass hunger and starvation.

That agriculture is an essential pursuit of every nation.

Our 60 million acres now diverted to conservation uses represent the major emergency reserve that could readily be called forth in the critical race between food and population.