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Your accomplishment is one that can benefit all mankind.

What I hope the sixties will be remembered for are the steps that we have taken in education and in health and in understanding of our fellow man, not just in the 50 States of this Union, but in all the continents of the world.

But I know of no more worthy motive or purpose that a human being can have than to try to lay out as his or her goal a program that will educate the mind, and that will conquer disease in the body, and that will permit your children and…

It gives me such great satisfaction to attempt in the best way I can to pay tribute to Congressman Fogarty from the great State of Rhode Island.

Your scientists have made a major contribution to man's knowledge of the moon and of space.

I accept the facts. I refuse to accept the prediction.

So this morning I again appeal to all my fellow Americans to help their country in this hour of need.

For 5 years now, if the press will accept my apology, this country has been moving straight ahead and we think in the right direction.

I will shortly propose a comprehensive Highway Safety Act of 1966 to arrest the destruction of life and property on our highways.

Our nation has no better ambassadors than the young volunteers who serve in 46 countries in the Peace Corps.

No child should grow to manhood in America without realizing the promise and the peril of the world beyond our borders.

I appeal to business not to raise prices.

Schooled in the grief of war, we know certain truths are self-evident in every nation on this earth: --Ideas, not armaments, will shape our lasting prospects for peace.

It has taken industrial statesmanship.

We are here this morning to engage in a bit of barter with Harvard University.

The well-being of any nation rests fundamentally upon the health of its people.

So I appeal to the Congress to enact the revenue measures that I have proposed.







