We must begin now to provide machinery for the creation of additional reserves.

The long period of large United States deficits has come to an end.

Increasing educational opportunity is only one of the ways that we human beings must meet the pressing demands of the times.

The job of building sound and effective institutions for financing world trade is never finished.

This year, with the help of your organization and many other friends of education, Congress enacted its crowning achievement in education--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Under the provisions of this legislation, more than 5 1/2 million schoolchildren in areas of poverty throughout this Nation from coast to coast will be helped.

I still think of myself as one, though my classroom career was momentarily interrupted about 35 years ago.

That Pennsylvania Avenue will be redeveloped is inevitable.

When President Stillman organized your American Federation of Teachers in 1916, the responsibility for teachers was very high, but, as I have just indicated, the rewards were quite low.

I requested authorization for the Commerce Department to undertake a program of research and development.

I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.

This High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 really gives us, for the first time in history, a coordinated program for improving the transportation system that we have today, and making it a better servant Of our people.

So we begin this morning to really plan the revolutionary advances of tomorrow.

In the last 2 years, we have enacted--the last 22 months since I have been President-we have passed through the House and the Senate and this President has signed 24 major measures to improve education in America.

You are thinking to the future, you are moving ahead, you are anticipating the problems of the 20th century, and you are finding solutions to them.

We have the resources and the incentive to give our children constantly improving medical care.

I urge each community to study the needs of its schools and to use all the resources at its command to make equal educational opportunity a reality for all Americans.

Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.