With a pledge to heed that good advice, and with genuinely warm appreciation, I proudly accept your award.

Our devotion to freedom is unyielding.

Future progress will depend on future responsibility.

We have pledged our elderly the right to the best treatment that medical science can provide.

The quality of our life must become as much a national issue as the quantity of our goods.

A beginning has been made, but what will the outcome be?

We have pledged every American child the right to all the education that he can take.

The right to something is not to realize it.

I feel a very special gratitude in receiving this honor today--because I think I know something of the men and women who extend it.

Our economy is surging.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby request the observance of Sunday, May 1, 1966, as Law Day in the United States of America.

Only under the rule of law, and obedience thereto, can we rightfully claim our heritage of individual freedom.

I commended Mr. Swidler and Mr. Brown for the dispatch and the comprehensiveness of their report, and I want to thank them again for their prompt action this morning in connection with the Beaumont-Navasota matter.

No, no. He did not address himself to changing my mind, nor did I address myself to changing his.

Mine is to prevent one.

I believe the public is served by competent and dedicated men in the Federal Reserve and in the Treasury and the financial agencies, fiscal agencies of the Government.

They have not completed their study. They have not made any recommendations as yet.

I know that this will involve some pain and sacrifice.