I have asked Chairman Macy of the Civil Service Commission to take leadership in coordinating this collective action to develop a common Federal wages system, including consultation with appropriate employee organizations; to keep me…

And I urge you, I plead with you, I beg you to work around the clock.

I ask you, accordingly, to join with the heads of other executive departments and agencies in the development of common job standards and wage policies and practices which will insure interagency equity in wage rates based upon…

The policies and practices should be based upon the principles that (1) wages shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates, and (2) there shall be…

I am deeply concerned by the differences in the systems and practices used by the departments and agencies to fix the pay for Federal wage board employees.

Rules and regulations prescribed in pursuance of the amendments made by this order may be made effective on any date not earlier than the date of enactment of the Federal Employees Salary Act of 1965.

Executive Order No. 11228 of June 14, 1965, entitled 'Providing for the performance by the Civil Service Commission of certain functions vested in or subject to the approval of the President', be, and it is hereby, amended by inserting the…

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to invite, on my behalf, such foreign countries as he may consider appropriate to participate in this…

Our medicine has conquered ancient diseases.

We must be farsighted and bold in managing and using our water.

In the past year we have added greatly to that national legacy.

I call upon the citizens throughout the nation to participate in observance of that month.

Our nation is rich and strong and united in the cause of liberty and justice.

I urge that these observances specially emphasize the need for immediate private and public participation.

Today we have much more than an abundant harvest.

Let us make ourselves worthy of that generosity by pledging to Him our everlasting devotion.

For all the blessings that have been bestowed upon our nation during the past 12 months, it is a small thing to give thanks to Almighty God.

I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.