No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine.

It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: 'Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health.'

In the terms of the Navy, for which we all have such great respect, I say, 'Well done.'

In the works of space, as in the works of peace, this great Nation of ours stands always ready to join with any others--to join with all others--and we are ready as I speak now.

Thank you so much for coming.

And the results are already apparent and already gratifying.

It is good to finally be here with you, and this house is honored today by the presence of such distinguished company.

We are so grateful for your friendship, for your loyalty, for your cooperation in trying to solve the problems of this hemisphere and trying to be equal to the challenges of the 20th century.

Our Nation must live by its vision, must live by its faith, or we won't live at all.

We are striving to shelter and to save the gains that man has made while, at the same time, we are seeking to help man fulfill the promise within him, to fulfill that promise in peace and in freedom.

And where there is no vision the people perish.

The one thing I need from you more than anything else, aside from your leadership in your local communities, is to take your eyes and your ears, and your head and your heart, and your heels, and try to develop for me the most outstanding…

I looked yesterday at a number of women that I would hope could serve on the highest Court of our land--where one has never served.

A President must, in times like these, often weigh decisions that are great and that are grave--and most of the time they are grim.

Mankind's progress toward the distant stars of peace and reason must not, and shall not, be either delayed or diverted by those who would cast the shadow of fear across its path and have it fall in the darkness of war.

No cynicism can corrode the promise that is beginning to gleam so brightly in the sun of this New World's new day.

They have brought the Mariner 4 from idea to reality and have kept the vigil with it now through 2:28 days of flight.

I am very proud that since becoming President, I have found it possible to, on the basis of merit, appoint 114 women to major positions in this Government, and almost 3,000 other women have received appointments or promotions to the…