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These are the facts and not the slogans.

You have today submitted to me the report of the Commission which I appointed on November 29 last to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

I have commended that rule, Mr. Johnson, to my staff here at the White House.

Twenty years ago, in 1944, he produced America's first production jet.

He works by a rule that is wise for us all: be quick; be quiet; be on time.

Your Commission, I know, has been guided throughout by a determination to find and to tell the whole truth of these terrible events.

His record of design achievement in aviation is both incomparable and virtually incredible.

I have given instructions for the prompt publication of this report to the American people and to the world.

Yes, to you good members of this honorable and responsible union there is work for you to do, for us to do--work to build this good society better, work to make this strong country the foundation of a great and a compassionate civilization.

I call upon you, here and now, to begin this hour to start fighting in order to save it.

Americans are faced with a concerted bid for power by factions which oppose all that both parties have supported.

We have no time for callousness on contempt, either in the policies of our Nation or in the hearts of our leaders.

We must make sure that they can meet their health needs.

Hence from Plymouth Rock until this day, Americans have been careful about the welfare of their fellow man.

In 1914 the first old-age pension was established in a State where character has not been collectivized by compassion - the great State of Arizona.

America must keep her trust with her senior citizens.

The object of all we do is to give our people a fair start or a new start in the race of life, whatever lot they are born to, whatever fate may befall them.

We must concern ourselves with the level of their income.