As Americans--and as Democrats--we are an honored generation.

Our system in this land is the most successful that any nation has ever known.

So, this afternoon I want to personally congratulate the entire Congress for its very prompt and its very efficient and effective action on this matter.

A healthy economy is free of inflation.

So, to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, and to the members of the House Ways and Means Committee, and to the membership of the two Houses respectively, I say to you, on behalf of a grateful people, you have done your job well.

I want to call on all Americans to join with us in declaring Wednesday, June 30, Head Start Day, and to give wholehearted support to this vital undertaking.

Mrs. Johnson and I are proud of the Nation's response to Head Start.

All Youth Corps programs have a common purpose—that is, to provide employment to young people while they finish their high school education, to provide full-time work and training to those who have dropped out of school and who lack the…

Teenage unemployment stands at 14 1/2 percent—more than three times the average for the population as a whole—and six times as many Negro youths as white youths are unemployed.

We look forward, in the days ahead, to getting the results which we have talked about.

It is a great pleasure for me this morning to welcome to the White House you three young people whose personal stories, I believe, help to explain what the war on poverty is all about.

So, what are we doing? Well, we are determined to use our wealth, and to use our power, and to use our ingenuity to change these conditions.

Employment last month, I believe, is down something like over 4,000 employees in the Federal Government.

The Governor of Georgia told me that before they were acting on requests for new facilities they were making very careful studies because their unemployment rate is down in a good many areas 2 percent or less.

The need of man--the need of these times in which we live--is not for arms races, and it is not for moon races.

I am confident that the breakthrough in space will permit all mankind--in developed nations and emerging nations--to overcome and leave behind many obstacles that today retard human progress in health, that retard human progress in…

I firmly believe in the independence and the integrity of the legislative branch of the Government, and I promise you that I shall always respect this.

So I am very proud and I am very pleased, and I am very honored in the presence of those of you here this morning to be able now to give my approval to this valuable legislation for the benefit of a strong and a growing region of our great…