Peace comes only to those who work for it and are ready to defend it.

Our twin blessings of peace and abundance have always rested on those who were willing to risk, whatever the danger, and to sacrifice, whatever the cost, for the freedom of America.

For that we give thanks and pray that we may continue to deserve His blessings.

The following offices and positions are placed in level IV of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule:

This order shall be effective August 15, 1964.

Third, I am proud I am a public servant.

We too must have the courage to confront complexity, never permitting it to sever the nerve of action or dull the edge of faith.

It is the only ruler that free men recognize and the only dictator that free men desire.

Our emphasis is going to be this next 4 years just as it was when the Republic of Texas was founded.

I do not interpret the selection as a mandate to any reckless, novel, dangerous, or unique course.

First, I am proud I am a free man.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do proclaim Sunday, November twenty second, 1964, a day of national rededication.

I want very much to be President of all of the people.

In his thousand days of our leadership, President Kennedy made decisions which will be remembered and respected for a thousand years.

Second, I am proud I am an American.

In death he has entered and enriched it.

He belongs to the ages.

It can be said of him, as Thomas Jefferson said of George Washington: 'Never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in everlasting remembrance.'