I believe that in this room are Americans who share with me a common dedication to American greatness.

The American people have made their choice--for peace, for order, and for the rule of law.

For myself, I welcome this opportunity to add through personal conversation to the understanding already achieved by our personal correspondence.

Now I should like to ask all of you to join me in a toast to His Majesty, the King of Malaysia, and to the friendship between the Malaysian and American people--long may it endure.

We are very proud to welcome you back again today, this time as the leader of the new nation of Malaysia.

We have greatly admired the courage with which you led your native land to a decisive victory over Communist terrorism.

I do hereby designate the week of November 20 through November 26, 1964, as National Farm-City Week;

I ask all our people to dedicate themselves to renewed and continuous efforts to improve the quality of education.

I urge that such programs place special emphasis on the increasing importance of protecting our Nation's soil, water, and timber so that our estimated 340 million citizens of the year 2000 may enjoy abundance then as we do now.

Education is basic to every facet of our individual lives and of the life of our Nation.

I request that leaders of business groups, labor unions, women's clubs, and civic associations, and all consumers join, along with farm families and other rural people, in this observance, as evidence of the strong ties that bind urban and…

We must avoid complacency and we must never be quite satisfied with our educational institutions, no matter how good they may be.

People in other countries sometimes forget what we in America can never forget: that America has been built by sons and daughters of every continent and every country.

Nothing makes a house happier than young people--and this house is a very happy home right now with all of you here on our lawn.

It is good to have you here at the White House with us this evening.

So America is not an old, contented, complacent land--ready to stand still.

I don't know what impressions you may have brought here--or what impressions you may be taking away now.

We live together today in 50 States as one people--one people, united and indivisible.