We are prepared to provide an emergency pump pipeline system from the Passaic Lake wells.

This administration intends to bring the healing miracle of modern medicine to everyone in this country, no matter how remotely they live from the city.

There is universal agreement that we should proceed at once.

We are anxious and our hearts are saddened this Sunday at the disaster which has struck your country but with God's help and fraternal assistance we are confident that the Chilean people will overcome these difficulties.

I urge all Americans to give recognition to the value of highway transportation to their own activities and to our national welfare.

If we follow these commands in all our lands, then progress will fulfill our dreams.

An initial shipment of blankets, clothes and medicines will be arriving in Chile on Tuesday to be followed by other supplies in the coming days.

I urge the Governors of the States and mayors of cities to issue similar proclamations.

I have called for a major effort to beautify our highways and roadsides, and to construct scenic and recreational roads.

The faith and the will of millions do not take fire from the brands that are muffled in reluctance and fear.

My deep sympathy and that of the people of the United States goes out to you and the Chilean people as you move to relieve human suffering following in the wake of the second natural catastrophe which has struck your country this year.

And if we have not really reached the farthest limit of expectation, we have done much more, indeed, than many ever believed we could do.

It was nothing less than to transform the life of an entire continent.

We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the companion of progress.

Our continent is in ferment.

That new legislation is but a beginning and there is still much to be done.

The Commission's primary assignment is to conduct the first systematic, nationwide study of the entire spectrum of crime problems.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 9, 1965, as Leif Erikson Day;