Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during which all persons are specially invited to see the United States, visit our historic shrines, our…

With the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965 this morning, I pledge you that we are going to reopen the Potomac for swimming by 1975.

The long period of large United States deficits has come to an end.

We must begin now to provide machinery for the creation of additional reserves.

The job of building sound and effective institutions for financing world trade is never finished.

Increasing educational opportunity is only one of the ways that we human beings must meet the pressing demands of the times.

I want to be very clear about this, because we must, in our own interest and in the interest of those who rely on the dollar as a reserve currency, maintain our payments in equilibrium.

When President Stillman organized your American Federation of Teachers in 1916, the responsibility for teachers was very high, but, as I have just indicated, the rewards were quite low.

In the last 2 years, we have enacted--the last 22 months since I have been President-we have passed through the House and the Senate and this President has signed 24 major measures to improve education in America.

So we begin this morning to really plan the revolutionary advances of tomorrow.

This High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 really gives us, for the first time in history, a coordinated program for improving the transportation system that we have today, and making it a better servant Of our people.

I requested authorization for the Commerce Department to undertake a program of research and development.

That Pennsylvania Avenue will be redeveloped is inevitable.

I still think of myself as one, though my classroom career was momentarily interrupted about 35 years ago.

I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.

Under the provisions of this legislation, more than 5 1/2 million schoolchildren in areas of poverty throughout this Nation from coast to coast will be helped.

You are thinking to the future, you are moving ahead, you are anticipating the problems of the 20th century, and you are finding solutions to them.

This year, with the help of your organization and many other friends of education, Congress enacted its crowning achievement in education--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.