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In our history, the Congress has occasionally passed bills which have required, in various circumstances, that executive action must be deferred until the proposed action has been reported to specified Congressional committees, and the…

Now what we have done this summer is more than just a matter of finding summer jobs for youngsters.

And we shall overcome, and I am enlisted for the duration.

We need your help--and I am glad that you have responded out of a sense of duty to both your country and to humanity.

This means that $1,360 per citizen has gone to Alaska since the earthquake.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964--guaranteeing equal employment opportunities-is a key to hope for millions of our fellow Americans.

With that key we can begin to open the gates that now enclose the ghettos of despair.

And unless this work wins the day, and unless we are successful in what we are trying to do, we may all be consumed, without discrimination, by the fires of hate and bigotry.

But I must remind you, and all the world, this morning, that with these rights comes responsibility.

For those who have been denied equal access throughout the years to public facilities, I am proud to say that this administration has led the way in ripping down the barriers of discrimination.

So here he is and he is going to try to reform the HEW.

We do have a serious situation in Viet-Nam.

This is going to be one of the three or four or five principal subjects with which this administration will be dealing.

It is one of the most difficult problems that faces our country and hasn't any easy answers.

So to you who have given your time and talents to come here, on behalf of this country I thank you.

And so long as I am your President I intend to preserve the rights of all of our citizens, and I intend to enforce the laws that protect all of our citizens--without regard to race, religion, region, or without fear or favor.

Education, health, move them out of the slums and the poverty, provide housing, and beautify the land and make it something that is truly symbolic when we say 'America the Beautiful,' because we want this to be a good world.