I say to you today, that your generation has a rendezvous with tomorrow.

I believe there is no greater calling and no greater challenge to any young person today than public service, serving the public of your country.

We have told them, we have told them time and time again, that we prefer words to bullets, that we would much rather negotiate and talk than fight.

Proclamation No. 3212 is terminated.

I began my life as a schoolteacher.

The thing that I have wanted most to do when I left public office would be to try to inspire and to promote young people's interest in government.

I hereby proclaim the week beginning March 6, 1966, as Save Your Vision Week

Item 943.10 (reflecting, with modifications, Proclamation No. 3212 which effected the increased rate of duty) is deleted from the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States.

I fully share these views.

Meanwhile, the nations that do not seek the nuclear path can be sure that they will have our strong support against threats of nuclear blackmail.

Poison kills only where there is no antidote.

This partnership has written the story of American success.

The avoidance of war and particularly nuclear war is the central, common concern of all mankind.

Our prosperity does not depend on our military effort.

For such an extension, the United States will require only that number and kind of inspections which modern science shows to be necessary to assure that the treaty is being faithfully observed.

My country is dedicated to this end.

Each of these steps would contribute toward reducing the danger and destruction of war.

The limited test ban treaty lit a candle of hope in the darkness.