And I am so hopeful that we will finally be successful in this Congress in providing comprehensive hospital and medical insurance for our senior citizens.

So if Klansmen hear my voice today, let it be both an appeal and a warning to get out of the Ku Klux Klan now and return to a decent society before it is too late.

I shall continue to fight them because I know their loyalty is not to the United States of America but instead to a hooded society of bigots.

I look forward to meeting with you and to having the benefit of your advice and recommendations.

I think history will soon forget both the objections and the objectors who oppose the marshalling of our strength to meet our educational needs.

I hope these outstanding organizations, and others like them all across this land, will be in the forefront of our accelerating effort to improve and to advance the quality of education for all of our people in every region and at every…

We must insure that every person is being utilized to the fullest--and that every dollar spent is a dollar needed to accomplish our purposes.

The promise of America is opportunity for our people.

Where constitutional rights are concerned, the country can ask no more-and accept no less--than uncompromising devotion to the Constitution itself.

Opportunity should not be closed to any person because of the circumstances of the area in which he lives.

In countries where such reviews are conducted, I shall expect each agency to respect the levels established for each of our programs by Secretary Rusk and Mr. Gordon in the allocation of funds and resources for the ensuing year.

This reorganization plan will permit a needed modernization of the organization and procedure of the Bureau of Customs.

Congress, in support of this objective, appropriated funds to assist in the preparation of such plans.

Since this Nation was born they have always found various ways and means and reasons to divert us and to hold down our national effort in the field of education.

I do not believe it is necessary--or desirable--for the executive branch to duplicate globally the pattern of domestic responsibilities and operations at home.

There must be equal treatment, equal respect, equal service--and equal support--for all American citizens, regardless of race, or sex, or region, or religion.

In my State of the Union, I announced it was this Administration's intention to 'reshape and re-organize' the Executive Branch.

A growing nation cannot afford to waste those resources, human and natural, which are now too often neglected and unused in distressed areas.