So the enactment of this legislation, and so many other measures of this Congress, represents the unified determination of this generation to preserve the best of the past by preparing to make the future better still.

Today there are 75 million automobiles in use in this country.

On an average weekday more people enter and leave downtown Washington than visit Manhattan Island in New York City.

The bill I am about to sign today represents a victory for the second school of thought.

Today I am challenging you to try to find these answers.

That growth means increased well-being for older people, widows and orphans everywhere in the Nation.

Finally, your report gives eloquent restatement to the basic principle that sound decisions in a free society must be built on the best possible information.

And so tonight I am going to leave the White House and go away to the hills of home, with my heart full of gratitude for the great progress that a united America has made this week.

If our astronauts can do what they did the other day--spend 8 days in space--we have got enough ingenuity, imagination, and determination here to get the job done with drought and floods.

I found it possible to exchange views with the steel negotiators at a particularly appropriate moment today.

The 89th Congress has responded more to this challenge than any Congress in our history.

It is the mission, therefore, of the USIA to be always loyal and always faithful and always vigilant to the course of the truth.

This is a country that is moving forward.

Second only to the search for peace, it is humanity's greatest challenge.

We ask nothing for ourselves that we do not also ask for all of humanity.

I have heard a lot of talk during my 35 years in public life about the power of the press, and particularly the power of Life, Time, Fortune, and a few other publications associated with you.

I hope when we meet here again that we'll have more trees and more flowers here on this somewhat rather sacred spot.

MANY happy returns on your birthday.