It is my earnest hope that purchases and holdings of U.S. Savings Bonds will rise substantially--both through signing up new buyers and through increased support from those who already are buying bonds.

And I came up here to Atlantic City tonight to tell you that this is only the beginning of what we're going to do in the field of education.

I should now like to receive by May 1, 1966, from the head of each executive department and agency a summary report of developments in 1965.

Who--and what--are their targets?

I have committed my administration to the task of persuading the non-nuclear countries that it is neither in the interests of their security, nor of world peace, to develop nuclear weapons.

I have instructed our negotiators to walk the extra mile necessary to insure that the weapons of war submit to man's need for peace.

I reaffirm my belief that it is possible through reason and through patient effort to translate the world's common interest in survival into concrete acts of restraint and accommodation between the nations.

The Wilderness Act is one in the long list of creative conservation measures that Congress has passed and I have signed into law.

School administrators know how a few teachers, trained in today's advanced methods of instruction, can raise the entire level of education in their schools.

Together they testify to a progressive, compassionate and resolute people.

The Council shall from time to time transmit to all appropriate agencies and officers of the Government statements of the policies of the Council under this order and such other information relating to the above-mentioned transactions or…

Most poignantly, children themselves know what it is to be taught with enthusiasm and skill.

The Congress has wisely provided for public participation as reviews of the Primitive and Roadless Areas proceed.

The Teacher Corps offers a practical means of uniting the idealism and wisdom of each--young graduates and accomplished teachers--and thus enriching the lives of coming generations.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1965 (30 F.R. 9353), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

The Executive Branch must fulfill its responsibility with common sense and imagination.

Parents know how much good teaching means to their children's future.

Our people must be given the opportunity to know, even for short periods of time, the wonders of God's creation expressed in earth's wilderness areas.