Our task, then, is to make our cities good place to live, expensive and demanding as we realize that task is going to be.

I take great pride in reading every day some of the letters from some of the boys in their teens--18, 19, 20 year olds--who are willing to leave and go into battle and give their lives in order that you can enjoy the freedom you have this…

The future of our relations is bright with hope.

It was about 53 years ago that I mailed my first letter from this post office.

Larry O'Brien will be the boss of a department that has 600,000 employees.

And what is that? Tolerance of the other man's viewpoint.

So, we welcome him into our Cabinet family.

Larry O'Brien's new job will extend to every corner of America.

And we are going to do our part to try to find a way to live in the world together a little better, a little closer, and, we hope, a little more peacefully.

I have assured them that there are a number of more important positions that await their doing.

Our ties with Poland began two centuries ago, when Pulaski came to our shores to help us in our struggle for independence.

The spirit of this land of ours must always be one, and the Government of this land must always be the servant of all the people--all of those who fill our teeming cities and all of those who live near the land in thousands and thousands…

He will be an Ambassador first of peace and goodwill, whose mission is to build new bridges not just to Poland but to the people of Eastern Europe.

I do not advocate and, of course, realize that we cannot return to the America that I knew when I was a boy.

So, this morning, we honor them as brothers in the quest for liberty.

But the price of progress must not be two kinds of America--one rural and one urban, or one northern and one southern or one Protestant and one Catholic.

He believes in every man's right to fight for what he actually believes in.

And Larry's coming here today reminds all of us in America that the large and the small are equally the concern of their Government-and of us all.