It takes years and years, you know, for a man to drive a steam engine down the tracks which it can't get off, yet we let anybody get a driving license for an automobile whether he knows front from back or right from left.

The American people stand ready at all times to support and cooperate with sensible regulations, capably administered, which are essential to the protection of life and property.

I hope that your meeting has been constructive.

The program of highway safety must be expanded and intensified.

You know, I pinned a medal on General Montgomery out here in the yard one day, shortly after the war, and he inquired of me why that building is called the White House.

And of course that pleased him immensely.

I am particularly disappointed at the failure of many States to establish driver licensing systems worthy of the name.

I will not. I do not favor it.

The 'must' list was included in three very large messages which I sent to the Congress, one on the State of the Union, one on the budget, and one on economics; and that is the 'must' list.

No nation can afford this needless peacetime waste of the lives of its citizens in traffic accidents.

I sent a thousand one day, and they have been going up in batches whenever they were ready.

I was consulted about the appointment of the Commission.

We want to continue that.

Yet, when we kill them on the road, or unnecessarily drown them, in accidents that shouldn't happen, we just take it for granted.

I will answer that question when the bill comes before me.

I will announce it when we are ready to make the appointment.

Yes, I will have to pass it up, I am sorry to say.

I have no vacation plans.