In those words from that dear mother are to be found the greatness of this Nation and also the strength of its President.

In private prayer at unusual moments, I have found courage to meet another day in a world where peace on earth is still only an empty dream.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

The past is prologue.

I wish I could tell you all that I feel in my heart.

So, my countrymen, in those words from that dear mother are to be found the greatness of this Nation and also the strength of its President.

I am pleased to return again to our annual prayer breakfast and to be among so many of my old friends.

I believe that with all my heart, but in these troubled times I am sustained by much more than my own prayers.

I pledge to you tonight that the Federal Government will not be a silent partner in this enterprise.

I am not describing a distant Utopia, but I am describing the kind of education which must be the great and the urgent work of our time.

I came up here to Atlantic City tonight to tell you that this is only the beginning of what we're going to do in the field of education.

I should now like to receive by May 1, 1966, from the head of each executive department and agency a summary report of developments in 1965.

I appreciate that steps have been taken in the past year to strengthen the government's safety programs but much more must be undertaken to emphasize our continuing concern and to assure effective implementation.

Two weeks ago, I called for the International Educational Act of 1966.

Who--and what--are their targets?

They may delay us, but I warn them and I pledge you they will never deter or or defeat us.

We must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

Therefore I am sending Congress five top priority requests.