I came here tonight not to bury the Congress, but to praise it.

For 20 years now--20 years of trial and testing--the purpose of this Nation has never wavered for a moment.

Congressman, I learned after I had been here only a few days that there are two kinds of horses in the Congress--the showhorses and the workhorses.

As Americans--and as Democrats--we are an honored generation.

This Congress will be remembered by these measures--and by many more--which add to the health and the happiness and the vitality of our people as well as the prosperity of our system.

All we want is peace and justice for all.

A healthy economy is free of inflation.

So, to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, and to the members of the House Ways and Means Committee, and to the membership of the two Houses respectively, I say to you, on behalf of a grateful people, you have done your job well.

So, this afternoon I want to personally congratulate the entire Congress for its very prompt and its very efficient and effective action on this matter.

I want to call on all Americans to join with us in declaring Wednesday, June 30, Head Start Day, and to give wholehearted support to this vital undertaking.

Mrs. Johnson and I are proud of the Nation's response to Head Start.

We look forward, in the days ahead, to getting the results which we have talked about.

It is a great pleasure for me this morning to welcome to the White House you three young people whose personal stories, I believe, help to explain what the war on poverty is all about.

Teenage unemployment stands at 14 1/2 percent—more than three times the average for the population as a whole—and six times as many Negro youths as white youths are unemployed.

All Youth Corps programs have a common purpose—that is, to provide employment to young people while they finish their high school education, to provide full-time work and training to those who have dropped out of school and who lack the…

So, what are we doing? Well, we are determined to use our wealth, and to use our power, and to use our ingenuity to change these conditions.

This morning I am going to take a moment to express my deep, personal gratitude and my admiration to the man whose ability and whose great brain, whose energy and whose diligence, whose imagination and initiative and abiding faith…

In the Dominican Republic in the last 2 days there has been renewed, and repeated, and totally unjustified firing on the Inter-American Force.