The Commission's primary assignment is to conduct the first systematic, nationwide study of the entire spectrum of crime problems.

The American people welcome this further demonstration of the devotion of Korea to the spirit of liberty and independence.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson,President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 9, 1965, as Leif Erikson Day

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson,President of the United States of America, and presiding officer of the Smithsonian Institution, hereby proclaim the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the birth of James Smithson; and I…

I want to express to you my personal gratitude.

I also invite the people of the United States to honor the memory of Leif Erikson on that day by holding appropriate exercises and ceremonies in schools and churches, or other suitable places

I am convinced that you and your distinguished colleagues on the Commission can and will make significant contributions to this drive to devise means to eradicate lawlessness, disrespect for the law, and the causes thereof.

The mounting crime rate and the unprecedented increase in the incidence of juvenile delinquency are matters of deep concern to me and to most Americans.

That new legislation is but a beginning and there is still much to be done.

I sent a special message concerning these problems to the Congress on March 8, 1965, and have recommended the enactment of certain new legislation designed to combat those problems.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, and presiding officer of the Smithsonian Institution, hereby proclaim the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the birth of James Smithson; and I…

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 9, 1965, as Leif Erikson Day;

Ambassador Lodge and I have spent many hours together these past few weeks.

Herbert Hoover was truly a remarkable man.

Public life can be a cruel life and President Hoover experienced that cruelty.

Herbert Hoover was President when I first came to Washington in 1931.

This house and this Government and this society, of which we are members, really belong to no party, because the partisan spirit is an alien spirit to America.

Our gratitude goes to Congressman Schmidhauser for introducing this legislation and working so tirelessly for its passage, and the entire Iowa delegation, both House and Senate.