We will do all this through the work of men and women like you--men and women who believe both in equal opportunity and equal responsibility and obligation.

Education, health, move them out of the slums and the poverty, provide housing, and beautify the land and make it something that is truly symbolic when we say 'America the Beautiful,' because we want this to be a good world.

This is going to be one of the three or four or five principal subjects with which this administration will be dealing.

It is one of the most difficult problems that faces our country and hasn't any easy answers.

For only if we work together can we overcome the water shortage threat now facing 25 million citizens in the most populated section of our Nation.

Our experts believe these measures are sufficient, if they are accompanied by aggressive conservation measures at the same time.

So I just want to observe finally, in closing, that we will, as long as I am President, Dr. Gardner, try to provide an educational opportunity for every youngster in this country, regardless of the condition of his birth, the section he…

Now, these are strong steps. But they are wise steps, and they must be taken together.

Now, if additional action is necessary your Federal Government will be prepared to act.

I said then that this was a time for action--a time for action to meet and to overcome the challenge of this great drought.

On this twenty-fifth anniversary of the Board, I am happy to extend my congratulations and best wishes.

This has been a very commendable American effort.

Third, to resolve the water problems between New York and Philadelphia we have reached an agreement to establish a 'strategic waterbank'.

I will reenlist in your army of excellence, and we all stand ready to march with you under your guidance.

This administration intends to bring the healing miracle of modern medicine to everyone in this country, no matter how remotely they live from the city.

Second, to ease the critical water crisis in northern New Jersey, I am directing the Chief of Engineers to install an emergency pump-pipeline system at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey.

We are prepared to provide an emergency pump pipeline system from the Passaic Lake wells.

We shall renew neither ourselves, nor society, nor a troubled world, unless we share a vision of something worth saving.