On behalf of the entire Nation, I want to thank the Vice President and his very special task force on Youth Opportunity.

The power of the Congress in which I served for nearly two dozen years, is not served by assuming executive functions.

This is going to be one of the three or four or five principal subjects with which this administration will be dealing.

For those who have been denied equal access throughout the years to public facilities, I am proud to say that this administration has led the way in ripping down the barriers of discrimination.

It is one of the most difficult problems that faces our country and hasn't any easy answers.

With that key we can begin to open the gates that now enclose the ghettos of despair.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964--guaranteeing equal employment opportunities-is a key to hope for millions of our fellow Americans.

So here he is and he is going to try to reform the HEW.

This means that $1,360 per citizen has gone to Alaska since the earthquake.

So to you who have given your time and talents to come here, on behalf of this country I thank you.

And we shall overcome, and I am enlisted for the duration.

And so long as I am your President I intend to preserve the rights of all of our citizens, and I intend to enforce the laws that protect all of our citizens--without regard to race, religion, region, or without fear or favor.

But I must remind you, and all the world, this morning, that with these rights comes responsibility.

Education, health, move them out of the slums and the poverty, provide housing, and beautify the land and make it something that is truly symbolic when we say 'America the Beautiful,' because we want this to be a good world.

And unless this work wins the day, and unless we are successful in what we are trying to do, we may all be consumed, without discrimination, by the fires of hate and bigotry.

We will do all this through the work of men and women like you--men and women who believe both in equal opportunity and equal responsibility and obligation.

We do have a serious situation in Viet-Nam.

We will build 50,000 planes a year.