The Virgin Islands Company is our greatest hope for the stabilization of the economy of St. Croix, and I sincerely hope the Congress is going to recharter it.

I propose that we meet that challenge head on.

I have no comment to make on that question.

No, I cannot. The Treasury is using it for a storehouse now.

They are both--I say they are both without foundation.

I don't know enough about the situation, only just what I read in the papers.

It seems to me that I heard a question like that last year, about what they were going to do to my budget.

Certainly. I always have.

I am going to keep telling Congress just what the situation is, and the Congress will have to act itself.

Every President has that.

I haven't discussed it with anybody.

I feel just as I did at that time.

The Constitution, containing the Bill of Rights, was the only document considered in the writing of that message.

Every American has a right to do as he pleases in a political campaign.

This gap must be closed.

Requirements for the payment of poll taxes also interfere with the right to vote.

We cannot be satisfied until all our people have equal opportunities for jobs, for homes, for education, for health, and for political expression, and until all our people have equal protection under the law.

These bodies together should keep all of us continuously aware of the condition of civil rights in the United States and keep us alert to opportunities to improve their protection.