There is hereby established the Vietnam Service Medal with suitable appurtenances.

A decent world ruled by just law is not a vain dream.

I don't know of anyone that is missed more from Washington than this wonderful Thornberry family.

We hated to see him leave the legislative halls, but we are glad to see him preside in the temples of justice.

There is no more courageous person, no better and finer human being, and no man with a greater sense of justice and fairness and feeling of equality for all human beings, wherever they live, whatever their color, or whatever their…

And, as I said earlier, together we are not just going to talk and dream.

The day of the talkers is gone.

For the process of learning is not a carefully defined and isolated segment of a person's life.

And it is up to you to make that education equal to our towering expectations of the America that we love and the America that is to come.

I will propose a National Teachers Corps to enlist thousands of dedicated teachers to work alongside local teachers in city slums and in areas of rural poverty where they can really serve their Nation.

The time for talking and dreaming and philosophizing and writing platforms is gone, and the time for doing things instead of talking about them is here.

In every corner of this world in which we live, not only our democracy but the idea of democracy itself is today being challenged.

The FAA Administrator be authorized to enter into contracts with the airframe manufacturers to undertake detailed airframe design work and tests over the next 18 months.

The program demands much hard work and much hard thinking.

The four manufacturers--Boeing Company, Lockheed Aircraft Company, General Electric Company, Pratt & Whitney Division of United Aircraft Corporation--be invited to continue in this phase of the program.

I ask that the appreciation of the Nation be extended to the men of the Secret Service, and to their families, for the spirit and standards of selfless service which have won the esteem and respect of the Nation during the century of the…

And finally--and very importantly, Mr. Magnuson--that the Congress be requested to appropriate--Mr. Mahon--the necessary funds to initiate the next phase of the program.

I have complete and absolute faith that young Americans of the present will be equal to the demands that destiny might make of them.