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Public service requires much dedication, much devotion, and a great deal of self-sacrifice.

Without thought of gain, without thought of conquest, without wish for aggrandizement, we have committed our lives, our property, our resources, and our sacred honor to the freedom and peace of other men, indeed to the freedom and peace of…

Admiral Raborn is a team-builder and he is a team player.

We were founded as a Nation upon an ideal.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said near the end of her life that anyone who believes that in every human being there is a spark of the divine must believe that to enable him to develop his potentialities to the maximum is the highest purpose that…

We deplore fighting wherever it takes place.

I urge the people of the United States to give public and private expression on that day to the abiding love and gratitude which they bear for their mothers by display of the flag at their homes or other suitable places and through prayer…

Our enemies would have you believe that we are following policies that are ill-advised, but we are following the same policies in Asia that we followed in Europe, that we followed in Turkey and Greece and Iran.

We who knew him knew that he was a gallant fighter, a man who dedicated his life both as a newsman and as a public official to an unrelenting search for truth.

I am pleased also to announce today that the war on poverty is setting up 10 new Job Corps conservation camps in nine States.

I do sometimes wonder how some people can be so concerned with our bombing a cold bridge of steel and concrete in North Viet-Nam, but never open their mouths about a bomb being placed in our embassy in South Viet-Nam.

We feel very friendly toward the people of India and the Government of India; toward the people of Pakistan and the Government of Pakistan.

We must make certain that there are jobs which graduates of this program can fill.

If this program is to work successfully it requires, as do all of our efforts, the support and the cooperation particularly of business, of labor, of every department of the Federal Government, and of all of our communities throughout the…

The date of the commencing of combatant activities in such area is hereby designated as January 1, 1964

I am proud to be here in Norfolk in the great State of Virginia as President of the United States.