[Delivered in person before a joint session at 9:05 p.m.] Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress, and my fellow Americans: I was thinking as I was walking down the aisle tonight of what Sam Rayburn told me many years ago: The Congress always extends a very warm welcome to the President-as he comes in. 
Thank all of you very, very much. I have come once again to this Chamber-the home of our democracy--to give you, as the Constitution requires, "Information of the State of the Union." I report to you that our country is challenged, at home and abroad: 
--that it is our will that is being tried, not our strength; our sense of purpose, not our ability to achieve a better America; --that we have the strength to meet our every challenge; the physical strength to hold the course of decency and compassion at home; and the moral strength to support the cause of peace in the world. And I report to you that I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people--nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. 
Since I reported to you last January: 
--Three elections have been held in Vietnam--in the midst of war and under the constant threat of violence. 
--A President, a Vice President, a House and Senate, and village officials have been chosen by popular, contested ballot. --The enemy has been defeated in battle after battle. 
--The number of South Vietnamese living in areas under Government protection tonight has grown by more than a million since January of last year. 
These are all marks of progress. Yet: 
--The enemy continues to pour men and material across frontiers and into battle, 
despite his continuous heavy losses. 
--He continues to hope that America's will to persevere can be broken. Well--he is wrong. America will persevere. Our patience and our perseverance will match our power. Aggression will never prevail. But our goal is peace--and peace at the earliest possible moment. Right now we are exploring the meaning of Hanoi's recent statement. There is no mystery about the questions which must be answered before the bombing is stopped. We believe that any talks should follow the San Antonio formula that I stated last September, which said: 
--The bombing would stop immediately if talks would take place promptly and with reasonable hopes that they would be productive. 
--And the other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past. This Nation simply cannot accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and of our allies. If a basis for peace talks can be established on the San Antonio foundations--and it is my hope and my prayer that they can--we would consult with our allies and with the other side to see if a complete cessation of hostilities--a really true cease-fire--could be made the first order of business. I will report at the earliest possible moment the results of these explorations to the American people. I have just recently returned from a very fruitful visit and talks with His Holiness the Pope and I share his hope--as he expressed it earlier today--that both sides will extend themselves in an effort to bring an end to the war in Vietnam. I have today assured him that we and our allies will do our full part to bring this about. Since I spoke to you last January, other events have occurred that have major consequences for world peace. 
--The Kennedy Round achieved the greatest reduction in tariff barriers in all the history of trade negotiations. 
--The nations of Latin America at Punta del Este resolved to move toward economic integration. --In Asia, the nations from Korea and Japan to Indonesia and Singapore worked behind America's shield to strengthen their economies and to broaden their political cooperation. 
--In Africa, from which the distinguished Vice President has just returned, he reports to me that there is a spirit of regional cooperation that is beginning to take hold in very practical ways. These events we all welcomed. Yet since I last reported to you, we and the world have been confronted by a number of crises: 
--During the Arab-Israeli war last June, the hot line between Washington and Moscow was used for the first time in our history. A cease-fire was achieved without a major power confrontation. Now the nations of the Middle East have the opportunity to cooperate with Ambassador Jarring's U.N. mission and they have the responsibility to find the terms of living together in stable peace and dignity, and we shall do all in our power to help them achieve that result. 
--Not far from this scene of conflict, a crisis flared on Cyprus involving two peoples who are America's friends: Greece and Turkey. Our very able representative, Mr. Cyrus Vance, and others helped to ease this tension. --Turmoil continues on the mainland of China after a year of violent disruption. The radical extremism of their Government has isolated the Chinese people behind their own borders. The United States, however, remains willing to permit the travel of journalists to both our countries; to undertake cultural and educational exchanges; and to talk about the exchange of basic food crop materials. 
Since I spoke to you last, the United States and the Soviet Union have taken several important steps toward the goal of international cooperation. As you will remember, I met with Chairman Kosygin at Glassboro and we achieved if not accord, at least a clearer understanding of our respective positions after 2 days of meeting. Because we believe the nuclear danger must be narrowed, we have worked with the Soviet Union and with other nations to reach an agreement that will halt the spread of nuclear weapons. On the basis of communications from Ambassador Fisher in Geneva this afternoon, I am encouraged to believe that a draft treaty can be laid before the conference in Geneva in the very near future. I hope to be able to present that treaty to the Senate this year for the Senate's approval. We achieved, in 1967, a consular treaty with the Soviets, the first commercial air agreement between the two countries, and a treaty banning weapons in outer space. We shall sign, and submit to the Senate shortly, a new treaty with the Soviets and with others for the protection of astronauts. Serious differences still remain between us, yet in these relations, we have made some progress since Vienna, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis. But despite this progress, we must maintain a military force that is capable of deterring any threat to this Nation's security, whatever the mode of aggression. Our choices must not be confined to total war-or to total acquiescence. We have such a military force today. We shall maintain it. I wish--with all of my heart--that the expenditures that are necessary to build and to protect our power could all be devoted to the programs of peace. But until world conditions permit, and until peace is assured, America's might--and America's bravest sons who wear our Nation's uniform--must continue to stand guard for all of us--as they gallantly do tonight in Vietnam and other places in the world. Yet neither great weapons nor individual courage can provide the conditions of peace. For two decades America has committed itself against the tyranny of want and ignorance in the world that threatens the peace. We shall sustain that commitment. This year I shall propose: 
--That we launch, with other nations, an exploration of the ocean depths to tap its wealth, and its energy, and its abundance. --That we contribute our fair share to a major expansion of the International Development Association, and to increase the resources of the Asian Development Bank. 
--That we adopt a prudent aid program, rooted in the principle of self-help. 
--That we renew and extend the food for freedom program. Our food programs have already helped millions avoid the horrors of famine. But unless the rapid growth of population in developing countries is slowed, the gap between rich and poor will widen steadily. Governments in the developing countries must take such facts into consideration. We in the United States are prepared to help assist them in those efforts. But we must also improve the lives of children already born in the villages and towns and cities on this earth. They can be taught by great teachers through space communications and the miracle of satellite television-and we are going to bring to bear every resource of mind and technology to help make this dream come true. Let me speak now about some matters here at home. Tonight our Nation is accomplishing more for its people than has ever been accomplished before. Americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history. Yet there is in the land a certain restlessness--a questioning. The total of our Nation's annual production is now above $800 billion. For 83 months this Nation has been on a steady upward trend of growth. All about them, most American families can see the evidence of growing abundance: higher paychecks, humming factories, new cars moving down new highways. More and more families own their own homes, equipped with more than 70 million television sets. A new college is founded every week. Today more than half of the high school graduates go on to college. There are hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers who never completed grammar school--who will see their children graduate from college. 
Why, then, this restlessness? Because when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled. And our ship is moving. It is moving through troubled and new waters; it is moving toward new and better shores. We ask now, not how can we achieve abundance?--but how shall we use our abundance? Not, is there abundance enough for all?--but, how can all share in our abundance? While we have accomplished much, much remains for us to meet and much remains for us to master. 
--In some areas, the jobless rate is still three or four times the national average 
--Violence has shown its face in some of our cities. --Crime increases on our streets. 
--Income for farm workers remains far behind that for urban workers; and parity for our farmers who produce our food is still just a hope--not an achievement. --New housing construction is far less than we need--to assure decent shelter for every family. 
--Hospital and medical costs are high, and they are rising. 
--Many rivers--and the air in many cities--remain badly polluted. And our citizens suffer from breathing that air. We have lived with conditions like these for many, many years. But much that we once accepted as inevitable, we now find absolutely intolerable. In our cities last summer, we saw how wide is the gulf for some Americans between the promise and the reality of our society. We know that we cannot change all of this in a day. It represents the bitter consequences of more than three centuries. But the issue is not whether we can change this; the issue is whether we will change this. Well, I know we can. And I believe we will. This then is the work we should do in the months that are ahead of us in this Congress. The first essential is more jobs, useful jobs for tens of thousands who can become productive and can pay their own way. Our economy has created 7 1/2 million new jobs in the past 4 years. It is adding more than a million and a half new jobs this year. Through programs passed by the Congress, job training is being given tonight to more than a million Americans in this country. This year, the time has come when we must get to those who are last in line--the hard-core unemployed--the hardest to reach. Employment officials estimate that 500,000 of these persons are now unemployed in the major cities of America. Our objective is to place these 500,000 in private industry jobs within the next 3 years. To do this, I propose a $2. 1 billion manpower program in the coming fiscal year-a 25 percent increase over the current year. Most of this increase will be used to start a new partnership between government and private industry to train and to hire the hard-core unemployed persons. I know of no task before us of more importance to us, to the country, or to our future. 
Another essential is to rebuild our cities. 
Last year the Congress authorized $662 million for the Model Cities program. I requested the full amount of that authorization to help meet the crisis in the cities of America. But the Congress appropriated only $312 million--less than half. This year I urge the Congress to honor my request for model cities funds to rebuild the centers of American cities by granting us the full amount that you in the Congress authorized--$1 billion. The next essential is more housing--and more housing now. Surely a nation that can go to the moon can place a decent home within the reach of its families. Therefore we must call together the resources of industry and labor, to start building 300,000 housing units for low- and middle-income families next year--that is three times more than this year. We must make it possible for thousands of families to become homeowners, not rent-payers. I propose, for the consideration of this Congress, a 10-year campaign to build 6 million new housing units for low and middle-income families. Six million units in the next 10 years. We have built 530,000 the last 10 years. Better health for our children--all of our children--is essential if we are to have a better America. Last year, Medicare, Medicaid, and other new programs that you passed in the Congress brought better health to more than 25 million Americans. American medicine--with the very strong support and cooperation of public resources-has produced a phenomenal decline in the death rate from many of the dread diseases. But it is a shocking fact that, in saving the lives of babies, America ranks 15th among the nations of the world. And among children, crippling defects are often discovered too late for any corrective action. This is a tragedy that Americans can, and Americans should, prevent. I shall, therefore, propose to the Congress a child health program to provide, over the next 5 years, for families unable to afford it--access to health services from prenatal care of the mother through the child's first year. When we do that you will find it is the best investment we ever made because we will get these diseases in their infancy and we will find a cure in a great many instances that we can never find by overcrowding our hospitals when they are grown. Now when we act to advance the consumer's cause I think we help every American. Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field. We enacted the Wholesome Meat Act, the Flammable Fabrics Act, the Product Safety Commission, and a law to improve clinical laboratories. And now, I think, the time has come to complete our unfinished work. The Senate has already passed the truth-in-lending bill, the fire safety bill, and the pipeline safety 
laws. Tonight I plead with the House to immediately act upon these measures and I hope take favorable action upon all of them. I call upon the Congress to enact, without delay, the remainder of the 12 vital consumer protection laws that I submitted to the Congress last year. I also urge final action on a measure that is already passed by the House to guard against fraud and manipulation in the Nation's commodity exchange market. These measures are a pledge to our people-to keep them safe in their homes and at work, and to give them a fair deal in the marketplace. 
And I think we must do more. I propose: 
--New powers for the Federal Trade Commission to stop those who defraud and who swindle our public. 
--New safeguards to insure the quality of fish and poultry, and the safety of our community water supplies. 
--A major study of automobile insurance. 
--Protection against hazardous radiation from television sets and other electronic equipment. And to give the consumer a stronger voice, I plan to appoint a consumer counsel in the Justice Department--a lawyer for the American consumer--to work directly under the Attorney General, to serve the President's Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs, and to serve the consumers of this land. This Congress--Democrats and Republicans--can earn the thanks of history. We can make this truly a new day for the American consumer, and by giving him this protection we can live in history as the consumer-conscious Congress. 
So let us get on with the work. Let us act soon. We, at every level of the government, State, local, Federal, know that the American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country. They recognize that law enforcement is first the duty of local police and local government. They recognize that the frontline headquarters against crime is in the home, the church, the city hall and the county courthouse and the statehouse--not in the far-removed National Capital of Washington. But the people also recognize that the National Government can and the National Government should help the cities and the States in their war on crime to the full extent of its resources and its constitutional authority. And this we shall do. This does not mean a national police force. It does mean help and financial support: 
--to develop State and local master plans to combat crime, 
--to provide better training and better pay for police, and 
--to bring the most advanced technology to the war on crime in every city and every county in America. There is no more urgent business before this Congress than to pass the Safe Streets Act this year that I proposed last year. That law will provide these required funds. They are so critically needed that I have doubled my request under this act to $100 million in fiscal 1969. And I urge the Congress to stop the trade in mail-order murder, to stop it this year by adopting a proper gun control law. This year, I will propose a Drug Control Act to provide stricter penalties for those who traffic in LSD and other dangerous drugs with our people. I will ask for more vigorous enforcement of all of our drug laws by increasing the number of Federal drug and narcotics control officials by more than 30 percent. The time has come to stop the sale of slavery to the young. I also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant United States attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws. We have increased our judiciary by 40 percent and we have increased our prosecutors by 16 percent. The dockets are full of cases because we don't have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them. We start these young lawyers at $8,200 a year. And the docket is clogged because we don't have authority to hire more of them. I ask the Congress for authority to hire 100 more. These young men will give special attention to this drug abuse, too. 
Finally, I ask you to add 100 FBI agents to strengthen law enforcement in the Nation and to protect the individual rights of every citizen. A moment ago I spoke of despair and frustrated hopes in the cities where the fires of disorder burned last summer. We can-and in time we will--change that despair into confidence, and change those frustrations into achievements. But violence will never bring progress. We can make progress only by attacking the causes of violence and only where there is civil order founded on justice. Today we are helping local officials improve their capacity to deal promptly with disorders. Those who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly, to resist them sternly, and to resist them decisively. 
I shall recommend other actions: 
--To raise the farmers' income by establishing a security commodity reserve that will protect the market from price-depressing stocks and protect the consumer from food scarcity. 
--I shall recommend programs to help farmers bargain more effectively for fair prices. --I shall recommend programs for new air safety measures. 
--Measures to stem the rising costs of medical care. 
--Legislation to encourage our returning veterans to devote themselves to careers in community service such as teaching, and being firemen, and joining our police force, and our law enforcement officials. --I shall recommend programs to strengthen and finance our anti-pollution efforts. 
--Fully funding all of the $2.18 billion poverty program that you in the Congress had just authorized in order to bring opportunity to those who have been left far behind. 
--I shall recommend an Educational Opportunity Act to speed up our drive to break down the financial barriers that are separating our young people from college. I shall also urge the Congress to act on several other vital pending bills--especially the civil rights measures--fair jury trials, protection of Federal rights, enforcement of equal employment opportunity, and fair housing. The unfinished work of the first session must be completed--the Higher Education Act, the Juvenile Delinquency Act, conservation measures to save the redwoods of California, and to preserve the wonders of our scenic rivers, the Highway Beautification Act--and all the other measures for a cleaner, and for a better, and for a more beautiful America. Next month we'll begin our 8th year of uninterrupted prosperity. The economic outlook for this year is one of steady growth-if we are vigilant. True, there are some clouds on the horizon. Prices are rising. Interest rates have passed the peak of 1966; and if there is continued inaction on the tax bill, they will climb even higher. I warn the Congress and the Nation tonight that this failure to act on the tax bill will sweep us into an accelerating spiral of price increases, a slump in homebuilding, and a continuing erosion of the American dollar. This would be a tragedy for every American family. And I predict that if this happens, they will all let us know about it. We--those of us in the executive branch, in the Congress, and the leaders of labor and business--must do everything we can to prevent that kind of misfortune. Under the new budget, the expenditures for 1969 will increase by $10.4 billion. Receipts will increase by $22.3 billion including the added tax revenues. Virtually all of this expenditure increase represents the mandatory cost of our defense efforts, $3 billion; increased interest, almost $1 billion; or mandatory payments under laws passed by Congress--such as those provided in the Social Security Act that you passed in 1967, and to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, veterans, and farmers, of about $4 1/2 billion; and the additional $1 billion 600 million next year for the pay increases that you passed in military and civilian pay. That makes up the $10 billion that is added to the budget. With few exceptions, very few, we are holding the fiscal 1969 budget to last year's level, outside of those mandatory and required increases. A Presidential commission composed of distinguished congressional fiscal leaders and other prominent Americans recommended this year that we adopt a new budget approach. I am carrying out their recommendations in this year's budget. This budget, therefore, for the first time accurately covers all Federal expenditures and all Federal receipts, including for the first time in one budget $47 billion from the social security, Medicare, highway, and other trust funds. The fiscal 1969 budget has expenditures of approximately $186 billion, with total estimated revenues, including the tax bill, of about $178 billion. If the Congress enacts the tax increase, we will reduce the budget deficit by some $12 billion. The war in Vietnam is costing us about $25 billion and we are asking for about $12 billion in taxes--and if we get that $12 billion tax bill we will reduce the deficit from about $20 billion in 1968 to about $8 billion in 1969. Now, this is a tight budget. It follows the reduction that I made in cooperation with the Congress--a reduction made after you had reviewed every appropriations bill and reduced the appropriations by some $5 or $6 billion and expenditures by $1.5 billion. We conferred together and I recommended to the Congress and you subsequently approved taking 2 percent from payrolls and 10 percent from controllable expenditures. We therefore reduced appropriations almost $10 billion last session and expenditures over $4 billion. Now, that was in the budget last year. I ask the Congress to recognize that there are certain selected programs that meet the Nation's most urgent needs and they have increased. We have insisted that decreases in very desirable but less urgent programs be made before we would approve any increases. So I ask the Congress tonight: 
--to hold its appropriations to the budget requests, and --to act responsibly early this year by enacting the tax surcharge which for the average American individual amounts to about a penny out of each dollar's income. 
This tax increase would yield about half of the $23 billion per year that we returned to the people in the tax reduction bills of 1964 and 1965. This must be a temporary measure, which expires in less than 2 years. Congress can repeal it sooner if the need has passed. But Congress can never repeal inflation. The leaders of American business and the leaders of American labor--those who really have power over wages and prices--must act responsibly, and in their Nation's interest by keeping increases in line with productivity. If our recognized leaders do not do this, they and those for whom they speak and all of us are going to suffer very serious consequences. On January 1st, I outlined a program to reduce our balance of payments deficit sharply this year. We will ask the Congress to help carry out those parts of the program which require legislation. We must restore equilibrium to our balance of payments. We must also strengthen the international monetary system. We have assured the world that America's full gold stock stands behind our commitment to maintain the price of gold at $35 an ounce. We must back this commitment by legislating now to free our gold reserves. Americans, traveling more than any other people in history, took $4 billion out of their country last year in travel costs. We must try to reduce the travel deficit that we have of more than $2 billion. We are hoping that we can reduce it by $500 million--without unduly penalizing the travel of teachers, students, business people who have essential and necessary travel, or people who have relatives abroad whom they want to see. Even with this reduction of $500 million, the American people will still be traveling more overseas than they did in 1967, 1966, or 1965 or any other year in their history. If we act together as I hope we can, I believe we can continue our economic expansion which has already broken all past records. And I hope that we can continue that expansion in the days ahead. 
Each of these questions I have discussed with you tonight is a question of policy for our people. Therefore, each of them should be--and doubtless will be--debated by candidates for public office this year. I hope those debates will be marked by new proposals and by a seriousness that matches the gravity of the questions themselves. These are not appropriate subjects for narrow partisan oratory. They go to the heart of what we Americans are all about--all of us, Democrats and Republicans. Tonight I have spoken of some of the goals I should like to see America reach. Many of them can be achieved this year-others by the time we celebrate our Nation's 200th birthday--the bicentennial of our independence. Several of these goals are going to be very hard to reach. But the State of our Union will be much stronger 8 years from now on our 200th birthday if we resolve to reach these goals now. They are more important-much more important--than the identity of the party or the President who will then be in office. These goals are what the fighting and our alliances are really meant to protect. 
Can we achieve these goals? 
Of course we can--if we will. If ever there was a people who sought more than mere abundance, it is our people. If ever there was a nation that was capable of solving its problems, it is this Nation. If ever there were a time to know the pride and the excitement and the hope of being an American--it is this time. So this, my friends, is the State of our Union: seeking, building, tested many times in this past year--and always equal to the test. 
Thank you and good night.
[Delivered in person before a joint session at 9:05 p.m.] Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress, and my fellow Americans: I was thinking as I was walking down the aisle tonight of what Sam Rayburn told me many years ago: The Congress always extends a very warm welcome to the President-as he comes in. Thank all of you very, very much. I have come once again to this Chamber-the home of our democracy--to give you, as the Constitution requires, "Information of the State of the Union." I report to you that our country is challenged, at home and abroad: --that it is our will that is being tried, not our strength; our sense of purpose, not our ability to achieve a better America; --that we have the strength to meet our every challenge; the physical strength to hold the course of decency and compassion at home; and the moral strength to support the because of peace in the world. And I report to you that I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people--nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. Since I reported to you last January: --Three elections have been held in Vietnam--in the midst of war and under the constant threat of violence. --A President, a Vice President, a House and Senate, and village officials have been chosen by popular, contested ballot. --The enemy has been defeated in battle after battle. --The number of South Vietnamese living in areas under Government protection tonight has grown by more than a million since January of last year. These are all marks of progress. Yet: --The enemy continues to pour men and material across frontiers and into battle, despite his continuous heavy losses. --He continues to hope that America's will to persevere can be broken. Well--he is wrong. America will persevere. Our patience and our perseverance will match our power. Aggression will never prevail. But our goal is peace--and peace at the earliest possible moment. Right now we are exploring the meaning of Hanoi's recent statement. There is no mystery about the questions which must be answered before the bombing is stopped. We believe that any talks should follow the San Antonio formula that I stated last September, which said: --The bombing would stop immediately if talks would take place promptly and with reasonable hopes that they would be productive. --And the other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past. This Nation simply cannot accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and of our allies. If a basis for peace talks can be established on the San Antonio foundations--and it is my hope and my prayer that they can--we would consult with our allies and with the other side to see if a complete cessation of hostilities--a really true cease-fire--could be made the first order of business. I will report at the earliest possible moment the results of these explorations to the American people. I have just recently returned from a very fruitful visit and talks with His Holiness the Pope and I share his hope--as he expressed it earlier today--that both sides will extend themselves in an effort to bring an end to the war in Vietnam. I have today assured him that we and our allies will do our full part to bring this about. Since I spoke to you last January, other events have occurred that have major consequences for world peace. --The Kennedy Round achieved the greatest reduction in tariff barriers in all the history of trade negotiations. --The nations of Latin America at Punta del Este resolved to move toward economic integration. --In Asia, the nations from Korea and Japan to Indonesia and Singapore worked behind America's shield to strengthen their economies and to broaden their political cooperation. --In Africa, from which the distinguished Vice President has just returned, he reports to me that there is a spirit of regional cooperation that is beginning to take hold in very practical ways. These events we all welcomed. Yet since I last reported to you, we and the world have been confronted by a number of crises: --During the Arab-Israeli war last June, the hot line between Washington and Moscow was used for the first time in our history. A cease-fire was achieved without a major power confrontation. Now the nations of the Middle East have the opportunity to cooperate with Ambassador Jarring's YOU.N. mission and they have the responsibility to find the terms of living together in stable peace and dignity, and we shall do all in our power to help them achieve that result. --Not far from this scene of conflict, a crisis flared on Cyprus involving two peoples who are America's friends: Greece and Turkey. Our very able representative, Mr. Cyrus Vance, and others helped to ease this tension. --Turmoil continues on the mainland of China after a year of violent disruption. The radical extremism of their Government has isolated the Chinese people behind their own borders. The United States, however, remains willing to permit the travel of journalists to both our countries; to undertake cultural and educational exchanges; and to talk about the exchange of basic food crop materials. Since I spoke to you last, the United States and the Soviet Union have taken several important steps toward the goal of international cooperation. As you will remember, I met with Chairman Kosygin at Glassboro and we achieved if not accord, at least a clearer understanding of our respective positions after 2 days of meeting. Because we believe the nuclear danger must be narrowed, we have worked with the Soviet Union and with other nations to reach an agreement that will halt the spread of nuclear weapons. On the basis of communications from Ambassador Fisher in Geneva this afternoon, I am encouraged to believe that a draft treaty can be laid before the conference in Geneva in the very near future. I hope to be able to present that treaty to the Senate this year for the Senate's approval. We achieved, in 1967, a consular treaty with the Soviets, the first commercial air agreement between the two countries, and a treaty banning weapons in outer space. We shall sign, and submit to the Senate shortly, a new treaty with the Soviets and with others for the protection of astronauts. Serious differences still remain between us, yet in these relations, we have made some progress since Vienna, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis. But despite this progress, we must maintain a military force that is capable of deterring any threat to this Nation's security, whatever the mode of aggression. Our choices must not be confined to total war-or to total acquiescence. We have such a military force today. We shall maintain it. I wish--with all of my heart--that the expenditures that are necessary to build and to protect our power could all be devoted to the programs of peace. But until world conditions permit, and until peace is assured, America's might--and America's bravest sons who wear our Nation's uniform--must continue to stand guard for all of us--as they gallantly do tonight in Vietnam and other places in the world. Yet neither great weapons nor individual courage can provide the conditions of peace. For two decades America has committed itself against the tyranny of want and ignorance in the world that threatens the peace. We shall sustain that commitment. This year I shall propose: --That we launch, with other nations, an exploration of the ocean depths to tap its wealth, and its energy, and its abundance. --That we contribute our fair share to a major expansion of the International Development Association, and to increase the resources of the Asian Development Bank. --That we adopt a prudent aid program, rooted in the principle of self-help. --That we renew and extend the food for freedom program. Our food programs have already helped millions avoid the horrors of famine. But unless the rapid growth of population in developing countries is slowed, the gap between rich and poor will widen steadily. Governments in the developing countries must take such facts into consideration. We in the United States are prepared to help assist them in those efforts. But we must also improve the lives of children already born in the villages and towns and cities on this earth. They can be taught by great teachers through space communications and the miracle of satellite television-and we are going to bring to bear every resource of mind and technology to help make this dream come true. Let me speak now about some matters here at home. Tonight our Nation is accomplishing more for its people than has ever been accomplished before. Americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history. Yet there is in the land a certain restlessness--a questioning. The total of our Nation's annual production is now above $800 billion. For 83 months this Nation has been on a steady upward trend of growth. All about them, most American families can see the evidence of growing abundance: higher paychecks, humming factories, new cars moving down new highways. More and more families own their own homes, equipped with more than 70 million television sets. A new college is founded every week. Today more than half of the high school graduates go on to college. There are hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers who never completed grammar school--who will see their children graduate from college. Why, then, this restlessness? Because when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled. And our ship is moving. It is moving through troubled and new waters; it is moving toward new and better shores. We ask now, not how can we achieve abundance?--but how shall we use our abundance? Not, is there abundance enough for all?--but, how can all share in our abundance? While we have accomplished much, much remains for us to meet and much remains for us to master. --In some areas, the jobless rate is still three or four times the national average --Violence has shown its face in some of our cities. --Crime increases on our streets. --Income for farm workers remains far behind that for urban workers; and parity for our farmers who produce our food is still just a hope--not an achievement. --New housing construction is far less than we need--to assure decent shelter for every family. --Hospital and medical costs are high, and they are rising. --Many rivers--and the air in many cities--remain badly polluted. And our citizens suffer from breathing that air. We have lived with conditions like these for many, many years. But much that we once accepted as inevitable, we now find absolutely intolerable. In our cities last summer, we saw how wide is the gulf for some Americans between the promise and the reality of our society. We know that we cannot change all of this in a day. It represents the bitter consequences of more than three centuries. But the issue is not whether we can change this; the issue is whether we will change this. Well, I know we can. And I believe we will. This then is the work we should do in the months that are ahead of us in this Congress. The first essential is more jobs, useful jobs for tens of thousands who can become productive and can pay their own way. Our economy has created 7 1/2 million new jobs in the past 4 years. It is adding more than a million and a half new jobs this year. Through programs passed by the Congress, job training is being given tonight to more than a million Americans in this country. This year, the time has come when we must get to those who are last in line--the hard-core unemployed--the hardest to reach. Employment officials estimate that 500,000 of these persons are now unemployed in the major cities of America. Our objective is to place these 500,000 in private industry jobs within the next 3 years. To do this, I propose a $2. 1 billion manpower program in the coming fiscal year-a 25 percent increase over the current year. Most of this increase will be used to start a new partnership between government and private industry to train and to hire the hard-core unemployed persons. I know of no task before us of more importance to us, to the country, or to our future. Another essential is to rebuild our cities. Last year the Congress authorized $662 million for the Model Cities program. I requested the full amount of that authorization to help meet the crisis in the cities of America. But the Congress appropriated only $312 million--less than half. This year I urge the Congress to honor my request for model cities funds to rebuild the centers of American cities by granting us the full amount that you in the Congress authorized--$1 billion. The next essential is more housing--and more housing now. Surely a nation that can go to the moon can place a decent home within the reach of its families. Therefore we must call together the resources of industry and labor, to start building 300,000 housing units for low- and middle-income families next year--that is three times more than this year. We must make it possible for thousands of families to become homeowners, not rent-payers. I propose, for the consideration of this Congress, a 10-year campaign to build 6 million new housing units for low and middle-income families. Six million units in the next 10 years. We have built 530,000 the last 10 years. Better health for our children--all of our children--is essential if we are to have a better America. Last year, Medicare, Medicaid, and other new programs that you passed in the Congress brought better health to more than 25 million Americans. American medicine--with the very strong support and cooperation of public resources-has produced a phenomenal decline in the death rate from many of the dread diseases. But it is a shocking fact that, in saving the lives of babies, America ranks 15th among the nations of the world. And among children, crippling defects are often discovered too late for any corrective action. This is a tragedy that Americans can, and Americans should, prevent. I shall, therefore, propose to the Congress a child health program to provide, over the next 5 years, for families unable to afford it--access to health services from prenatal care of the mother through the child's first year. When we do that you will find it is the best investment we ever made because we will get these diseases in their infancy and we will find a cure in a great many instances that we can never find by overcrowding our hospitals when they are grown. Now when we act to advance the consumer's because I think we help every American. Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field. We enacted the Wholesome Meat Act, the Flammable Fabrics Act, the Product Safety Commission, and a law to improve clinical laboratories. And now, I think, the time has come to complete our unfinished work. The Senate has already passed the truth-in-lending bill, the fire safety bill, and the pipeline safety laws. Tonight I plead with the House to immediately act upon these measures and I hope take favorable action upon all of them. I call upon the Congress to enact, without delay, the remainder of the 12 vital consumer protection laws that I submitted to the Congress last year. I also urge final action on a measure that is already passed by the House to guard against fraud and manipulation in the Nation's commodity exchange market. These measures are a pledge to our people-to keep them safe in their homes and at work, and to give them a fair deal in the marketplace. And I think we must do more. I propose: --New powers for the Federal Trade Commission to stop those who defraud and who swindle our public. --New safeguards to insure the quality of fish and poultry, and the safety of our community water supplies. --A major study of automobile insurance. --Protection against hazardous radiation from television sets and other electronic equipment. And to give the consumer a stronger voice, I plan to appoint a consumer counsel in the Justice Department--a lawyer for the American consumer--to work directly under the Attorney General, to serve the President's Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs, and to serve the consumers of this land. This Congress--Democrats and Republicans--can earn the thanks of history. We can make this truly a new day for the American consumer, and by giving him this protection we can live in history as the consumer-conscious Congress. So let us get on with the work. Let us act soon. We, at every level of the government, State, local, Federal, know that the American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country. They recognize that law enforcement is first the duty of local police and local government. They recognize that the frontline headquarters against crime is in the home, the church, the city hall and the county courthouse and the statehouse--not in the far-removed National Capital of Washington. But the people also recognize that the National Government can and the National Government should help the cities and the States in their war on crime to the full extent of its resources and its constitutional authority. And this we shall do. This does not mean a national police force. It does mean help and financial support: --to develop State and local master plans to combat crime, --to provide better training and better pay for police, and --to bring the most advanced technology to the war on crime in every city and every county in America. There is no more urgent business before this Congress than to pass the Safe Streets Act this year that I proposed last year. That law will provide these required funds. They are so critically needed that I have doubled my request under this act to $100 million in fiscal 1969. And I urge the Congress to stop the trade in mail-order murder, to stop it this year by adopting a proper gun control law. This year, I will propose a Drug Control Act to provide stricter penalties for those who traffic in LSD and other dangerous drugs with our people. I will ask for more vigorous enforcement of all of our drug laws by increasing the number of Federal drug and narcotics control officials by more than 30 percent. The time has come to stop the sale of slavery to the young. I also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant United States attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws. We have increased our judiciary by 40 percent and we have increased our prosecutors by 16 percent. The dockets are full of cases because we do not have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them. We start these young lawyers at $8,200 a year. And the docket is clogged because we do not have authority to hire more of them. I ask the Congress for authority to hire 100 more. These young men will give special attention to this drug abuse, too. Finally, I ask you to add 100 FBI agents to strengthen law enforcement in the Nation and to protect the individual rights of every citizen. A moment ago I spoke of despair and frustrated hopes in the cities where the fires of disorder burned last summer. We can-and in time we will--change that despair into confidence, and change those frustrations into achievements. But violence will never bring progress. We can make progress only by attacking the causes of violence and only where there is civil order founded on justice. Today we are helping local officials improve their capacity to deal promptly with disorders. Those who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly, to resist them sternly, and to resist them decisively. I shall recommend other actions: --To raise the farmers' income by establishing a security commodity reserve that will protect the market from price-depressing stocks and protect the consumer from food scarcity. --I shall recommend programs to help farmers bargain more effectively for fair prices. --I shall recommend programs for new air safety measures. --Measures to stem the rising costs of medical care. --Legislation to encourage our returning veterans to devote themselves to careers in community service such as teaching, and being firemen, and joining our police force, and our law enforcement officials. --I shall recommend programs to strengthen and finance our anti-pollution efforts. --Fully funding all of the $2.18 billion poverty program that you in the Congress had just authorized in order to bring opportunity to those who have been left far behind. --I shall recommend an Educational Opportunity Act to speed up our drive to break down the financial barriers that are separating our young people from college. I shall also urge the Congress to act on several other vital pending bills--especially the civil rights measures--fair jury trials, protection of Federal rights, enforcement of equal employment opportunity, and fair housing. The unfinished work of the first session must be completed--the Higher Education Act, the Juvenile Delinquency Act, conservation measures to save the redwoods of California, and to preserve the wonders of our scenic rivers, the Highway Beautification Act--and all the other measures for a cleaner, and for a better, and for a more beautiful America. Next month we will begin our 8th year of uninterrupted prosperity. The economic outlook for this year is one of steady growth-if we are vigilant. True, there are some clouds on the horizon. Prices are rising. Interest rates have passed the peak of 1966; and if there is continued inaction on the tax bill, they will climb even higher. I warn the Congress and the Nation tonight that this failure to act on the tax bill will sweep us into an accelerating spiral of price increases, a slump in homebuilding, and a continuing erosion of the American dollar. This would be a tragedy for every American family. And I predict that if this happens, they will all let us know about it. We--those of us in the executive branch, in the Congress, and the leaders of labor and business--must do everything we can to prevent that kind of misfortune. Under the new budget, the expenditures for 1969 will increase by $10.4 billion. Receipts will increase by $22.3 billion including the added tax revenues. Virtually all of this expenditure increase represents the mandatory cost of our defense efforts, $3 billion; increased interest, almost $1 billion; or mandatory payments under laws passed by Congress--such as those provided in the Social Security Act that you passed in 1967, and to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, veterans, and farmers, of about $4 1/2 billion; and the additional $1 billion 600 million next year for the pay increases that you passed in military and civilian pay. That makes up the $10 billion that is added to the budget. With few exceptions, very few, we are holding the fiscal 1969 budget to last year's level, outside of those mandatory and required increases. A Presidential commission composed of distinguished congressional fiscal leaders and other prominent Americans recommended this year that we adopt a new budget approach. I am carrying out their recommendations in this year's budget. This budget, therefore, for the first time accurately covers all Federal expenditures and all Federal receipts, including for the first time in one budget $47 billion from the social security, Medicare, highway, and other trust funds. The fiscal 1969 budget has expenditures of approximately $186 billion, with total estimated revenues, including the tax bill, of about $178 billion. If the Congress enacts the tax increase, we will reduce the budget deficit by some $12 billion. The war in Vietnam is costing us about $25 billion and we are asking for about $12 billion in taxes--and if we get that $12 billion tax bill we will reduce the deficit from about $20 billion in 1968 to about $8 billion in 1969. Now, this is a tight budget. It follows the reduction that I made in cooperation with the Congress--a reduction made after you had reviewed every appropriations bill and reduced the appropriations by some $5 or $6 billion and expenditures by $1.5 billion. We conferred together and I recommended to the Congress and you subsequently approved taking 2 percent from payrolls and 10 percent from controllable expenditures. We therefore reduced appropriations almost $10 billion last session and expenditures over $4 billion. Now, that was in the budget last year. I ask the Congress to recognize that there are certain selected programs that meet the Nation's most urgent needs and they have increased. We have insisted that decreases in very desirable but less urgent programs be made before we would approve any increases. So I ask the Congress tonight: --to hold its appropriations to the budget requests, and --to act responsibly early this year by enacting the tax surcharge which for the average American individual amounts to about a penny out of each dollar's income. This tax increase would yield about half of the $23 billion per year that we returned to the people in the tax reduction bills of 1964 and 1965. This must be a temporary measure, which expires in less than 2 years. Congress can repeal it sooner if the need has passed. But Congress can never repeal inflation. The leaders of American business and the leaders of American labor--those who really have power over wages and prices--must act responsibly, and in their Nation's interest by keeping increases in line with productivity. If our recognized leaders do not do this, they and those for whom they speak and all of us are going to suffer very serious consequences. On January 1st, I outlined a program to reduce our balance of payments deficit sharply this year. We will ask the Congress to help carry out those parts of the program which require legislation. We must restore equilibrium to our balance of payments. We must also strengthen the international monetary system. We have assured the world that America's full gold stock stands behind our commitment to maintain the price of gold at $35 an ounce. We must back this commitment by legislating now to free our gold reserves. Americans, traveling more than any other people in history, took $4 billion out of their country last year in travel costs. We must try to reduce the travel deficit that we have of more than $2 billion. We are hoping that we can reduce it by $500 million--without unduly penalizing the travel of teachers, students, business people who have essential and necessary travel, or people who have relatives abroad whom they want to see. Even with this reduction of $500 million, the American people will still be traveling more overseas than they did in 1967, 1966, or 1965 or any other year in their history. If we act together as I hope we can, I believe we can continue our economic expansion which has already broken all past records. And I hope that we can continue that expansion in the days ahead. Each of these questions I have discussed with you tonight is a question of policy for our people. Therefore, each of them should be--and doubtless will be--debated by candidates for public office this year. I hope those debates will be marked by new proposals and by a seriousness that matches the gravity of the questions themselves. These are not appropriate subjects for narrow partisan oratory. They go to the heart of what we Americans are all about--all of us, Democrats and Republicans. Tonight I have spoken of some of the goals I should like to see America reach. Many of them can be achieved this year-others by the time we celebrate our Nation's 200th birthday--the bicentennial of our independence. Several of these goals are going to be very hard to reach. But the State of our Union will be much stronger 8 years from now on our 200th birthday if we resolve to reach these goals now. They are more important-much more important--than the identity of the party or the President who will then be in office. These goals are what the fighting and our alliances are really meant to protect. Can we achieve these goals? Of course we can--if we will. If ever there was a people who sought more than mere abundance, it is our people. If ever there was a nation that was capable of solving its problems, it is this Nation. If ever there were a time to know the pride and the excitement and the hope of being an American--it is this time. So this, my friends, is the State of our Union: seeking, building, tested many times in this past year--and always equal to the test. Thank you and good night.
delivered in person before a joint session at speaker president members of the congress and my fellow americans i was thinking as i was walking down the aisle tonight of what sam rayburn told me many years ago the congress always extends a very warm welcome to the he comes in thank all of you very very much i have come once again to this home of our democracy to give you as the constitution requires information of the state of the union i report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried not our strength our sense of purpose not our ability to achieve a better america that we have the strength to meet our every challenge the physical strength to hold the course of decency and compassion at home and the moral strength to support the because of peace in the world and i report to you that i believe with abiding conviction that this people nurtured by their deep faith tutored by their hard lessons moved by their high the will to meet the trials that these times impose since i reported to you last january three elections have been held in vietnam in the midst of war and under the constant threat of violence a president a vice president a house and senate and village officials have been chosen by popular contested ballot the enemy has been defeated in battle after battle the number of south vietnamese living in areas under government protection tonight has grown by more than a million since january of last year these are all marks of progress yet the enemy continues to pour men and material across frontiers and into battle despite his continuous heavy losses he continues to hope that america will to persevere can be broken well he is wrong america will persevere our patience and our perseverance will match our power aggression will never prevail but our goal is peace and peace at the earliest possible moment right now we are exploring the meaning of hanoi recent statement there is no mystery about the questions which must be answered before the bombing is stopped we believe that any talks should follow the san antonio formula that i stated last september which said the bombing would stop immediately if talks would take place promptly and with reasonable hopes that they would be productive and the other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past this nation simply can not accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and of our allies if a basis for peace talks can be established on the san antonio foundations and it is my hope and my prayer that they can we would consult with our allies and with the other side to see if a complete cessation of hostilities a really true could be made the first order of business i will report at the earliest possible moment the results of these explorations to the american people i have just recently returned from a very fruitful visit and talks with his holiness the pope and i share his hope as he expressed it earlier today that both sides will extend themselves in an effort to bring an end to the war in vietnam i have today assured him that we and our allies will do our full part to bring this about since i spoke to you last january other events have occurred that have major consequences for world peace the kennedy round achieved the greatest reduction in tariff barriers in all the history of trade negotiations the nations of latin america at punta del este resolved to move toward economic integration in asia the nations from korea and japan to indonesia and singapore worked behind america shield to strengthen their economies and to broaden their political cooperation in africa from which the distinguished vice president has just returned he reports to me that there is a spirit of regional cooperation that is beginning to take hold in very practical ways these events we all welcomed yet since i last reported to you we and the world have been confronted by a number of crises during the war last june the hot line between washington and moscow was used for the first time in our history a was achieved without a major power confrontation now the nations of the middle east have the opportunity to cooperate with ambassador jarring mission and they have the responsibility to find the terms of living together in stable peace and dignity and we shall do all in our power to help them achieve that result not far from this scene of conflict a crisis flared on cyprus involving two peoples who are america friends greece and turkey our very able representative cyrus vance and others helped to ease this tension turmoil continues on the mainland of china after a year of violent disruption the radical extremism of their government has isolated the chinese people behind their own borders the united states however remains willing to permit the travel of journalists to both our countries to undertake cultural and educational exchanges and to talk about the exchange of basic food crop materials since i spoke to you last the united states and the soviet union have taken several important steps toward the goal of international cooperation as you will remember i met with chairman kosygin at glassboro and we achieved if not accord at least a clearer understanding of our respective positions after 2 days of meeting because we believe the nuclear danger must be narrowed we have worked with the soviet union and with other nations to reach an agreement that will halt the spread of nuclear weapons on the basis of communications from ambassador fisher in geneva this afternoon i am encouraged to believe that a draft treaty can be laid before the conference in geneva in the very near future i hope to be able to present that treaty to the senate this year for the senate approval we achieved in 1967 a consular treaty with the soviets the first commercial air agreement between the two countries and a treaty banning weapons in outer space we shall sign and submit to the senate shortly a new treaty with the soviets and with others for the protection of astronauts serious differences still remain between us yet in these relations we have made some progress since vienna the berlin wall and the cuban missile crisis but despite this progress we must maintain a military force that is capable of deterring any threat to this nation security whatever the mode of aggression our choices must not be confined to total to total acquiescence we have such a military force today we shall maintain it i wish with all of my heart that the expenditures that are necessary to build and to protect our power could all be devoted to the programs of peace but until world conditions permit and until peace is assured america might and america bravest sons who wear our nation uniform must continue to stand guard for all of us as they gallantly do tonight in vietnam and other places in the world yet neither great weapons nor individual courage can provide the conditions of peace for two decades america has committed itself against the tyranny of want and ignorance in the world that threatens the peace we shall sustain that commitment this year i shall propose that we launch with other nations an exploration of the ocean depths to tap its wealth and its energy and its abundance that we contribute our fair share to a major expansion of the international development association and to increase the resources of the asian development bank that we adopt a prudent aid program rooted in the principle of that we renew and extend the food for freedom program our food programs have already helped millions avoid the horrors of famine but unless the rapid growth of population in developing countries is slowed the gap between rich and poor will widen steadily governments in the developing countries must take such facts into consideration we in the united states are prepared to help assist them in those efforts but we must also improve the lives of children already born in the villages and towns and cities on this earth they can be taught by great teachers through space communications and the miracle of satellite we are going to bring to bear every resource of mind and technology to help make this dream come true let me speak now about some matters here at home tonight our nation is accomplishing more for its people than has ever been accomplished before americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history yet there is in the land a certain restlessness a questioning the total of our nation annual production is now above 800 billion for 83 months this nation has been on a steady upward trend of growth all about them most american families can see the evidence of growing abundance higher paychecks humming factories new cars moving down new highways more and more families own their own homes equipped with more than 70 million television sets a new college is founded every week today more than half of the high school graduates go on to college there are hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers who never completed grammar school who will see their children graduate from college why then this restlessness because when a great ship cuts through the sea the waters are always stirred and troubled and our ship is moving it is moving through troubled and new waters it is moving toward new and better shores we ask now not how can we achieve abundance but how shall we use our abundance not is there abundance enough for all but how can all share in our abundance while we have accomplished much much remains for us to meet and much remains for us to master in some areas the jobless rate is still three or four times the national average violence has shown its face in some of our cities crime increases on our streets income for farm workers remains far behind that for urban workers and parity for our farmers who produce our food is still just a hope not an achievement new housing construction is far less than we need to assure decent shelter for every family hospital and medical costs are high and they are rising many rivers and the air in many cities remain badly polluted and our citizens suffer from breathing that air we have lived with conditions like these for many many years but much that we once accepted as inevitable we now find absolutely intolerable in our cities last summer we saw how wide is the gulf for some americans between the promise and the reality of our society we know that we can not change all of this in a day it represents the bitter consequences of more than three centuries but the issue is not whether we can change this the issue is whether we will change this well i know we can and i believe we will this then is the work we should do in the months that are ahead of us in this congress the first essential is more jobs useful jobs for tens of thousands who can become productive and can pay their own way our economy has created 7 million new jobs in the past 4 years it is adding more than a million and a half new jobs this year through programs passed by the congress job training is being given tonight to more than a million americans in this country this year the time has come when we must get to those who are last in line the unemployed the hardest to reach employment officials estimate that of these persons are now unemployed in the major cities of america our objective is to place these in private industry jobs within the next 3 years to do this i propose a 2 1 billion manpower program in the coming fiscal 25 percent increase over the current year most of this increase will be used to start a new partnership between government and private industry to train and to hire the unemployed persons i know of no task before us of more importance to us to the country or to our future another essential is to rebuild our cities last year the congress authorized 662 million for the model cities program i requested the full amount of that authorization to help meet the crisis in the cities of america but the congress appropriated only 312 million less than half this year i urge the congress to honor my request for model cities funds to rebuild the centers of american cities by granting us the full amount that you in the congress authorized 1 billion the next essential is more housing and more housing now surely a nation that can go to the moon can place a decent home within the reach of its families therefore we must call together the resources of industry and labor to start building housing units for and families next year that is three times more than this year we must make it possible for thousands of families to become homeowners not i propose for the consideration of this congress a campaign to build 6 million new housing units for low and families six million units in the next 10 years we have built the last 10 years better health for our children all of our children is essential if we are to have a better america last year medicare medicaid and other new programs that you passed in the congress brought better health to more than 25 million americans american medicine with the very strong support and cooperation of public produced a phenomenal decline in the death rate from many of the dread diseases but it is a shocking fact that in saving the lives of babies america ranks 15th among the nations of the world and among children crippling defects are often discovered too late for any corrective action this is a tragedy that americans can and americans should prevent i shall therefore propose to the congress a child health program to provide over the next 5 years for families unable to afford it access to health services from prenatal care of the mother through the child first year when we do that you will find it is the best investment we ever made because we will get these diseases in their infancy and we will find a cure in a great many instances that we can never find by overcrowding our hospitals when they are grown now when we act to advance the consumer because i think we help every american last year with very little fanfare the congress and the executive branch moved in that field we enacted the wholesome meat act the flammable fabrics act the product safety commission and a law to improve clinical laboratories and now i think the time has come to complete our unfinished work the senate has already passed the bill the fire safety bill and the pipeline safety laws tonight i plead with the house to immediately act upon these measures and i hope take favorable action upon all of them i call upon the congress to enact without delay the remainder of the 12 vital consumer protection laws that i submitted to the congress last year i also urge final action on a measure that is already passed by the house to guard against fraud and manipulation in the nation commodity exchange market these measures are a pledge to our keep them safe in their homes and at work and to give them a fair deal in the marketplace and i think we must do more i propose new powers for the federal trade commission to stop those who defraud and who swindle our public new safeguards to insure the quality of fish and poultry and the safety of our community water supplies a major study of automobile insurance protection against hazardous radiation from television sets and other electronic equipment and to give the consumer a stronger voice i plan to appoint a consumer counsel in the justice department a lawyer for the american consumer to work directly under the attorney general to serve the president special assistant for consumer affairs and to serve the consumers of this land this congress democrats and republicans can earn the thanks of history we can make this truly a new day for the american consumer and by giving him this protection we can live in history as the congress so let us get on with the work let us act soon we at every level of the government state local federal know that the american people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country they recognize that law enforcement is first the duty of local police and local government they recognize that the frontline headquarters against crime is in the home the church the city hall and the county courthouse and the statehouse not in the national capital of washington but the people also recognize that the national government can and the national government should help the cities and the states in their war on crime to the full extent of its resources and its constitutional authority and this we shall do this does not mean a national police force it does mean help and financial support to develop state and local master plans to combat crime to provide better training and better pay for police and to bring the most advanced technology to the war on crime in every city and every county in america there is no more urgent business before this congress than to pass the safe streets act this year that i proposed last year that law will provide these required funds they are so critically needed that i have doubled my request under this act to 100 million in fiscal 1969 and i urge the congress to stop the trade in murder to stop it this year by adopting a proper gun control law this year i will propose a drug control act to provide stricter penalties for those who traffic in lsd and other dangerous drugs with our people i will ask for more vigorous enforcement of all of our drug laws by increasing the number of federal drug and narcotics control officials by more than 30 percent the time has come to stop the sale of slavery to the young i also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant united states attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws we have increased our judiciary by 40 percent and we have increased our prosecutors by 16 percent the dockets are full of cases because we do not have assistant district attorneys to go before the federal judge and handle them we start these young lawyers at a year and the docket is clogged because we do not have authority to hire more of them i ask the congress for authority to hire 100 more these young men will give special attention to this drug abuse too finally i ask you to add 100 fbi agents to strengthen law enforcement in the nation and to protect the individual rights of every citizen a moment ago i spoke of despair and frustrated hopes in the cities where the fires of disorder burned last summer we in time we will change that despair into confidence and change those frustrations into achievements but violence will never bring progress we can make progress only by attacking the causes of violence and only where there is civil order founded on justice today we are helping local officials improve their capacity to deal promptly with disorders those who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly to resist them sternly and to resist them decisively i shall recommend other actions to raise the farmers income by establishing a security commodity reserve that will protect the market from stocks and protect the consumer from food scarcity i shall recommend programs to help farmers bargain more effectively for fair prices i shall recommend programs for new air safety measures measures to stem the rising costs of medical care legislation to encourage our returning veterans to devote themselves to careers in community service such as teaching and being firemen and joining our police force and our law enforcement officials i shall recommend programs to strengthen and finance our efforts fully funding all of the billion poverty program that you in the congress had just authorized in order to bring opportunity to those who have been left far behind i shall recommend an educational opportunity act to speed up our drive to break down the financial barriers that are separating our young people from college i shall also urge the congress to act on several other vital pending bills especially the civil rights measures fair jury trials protection of federal rights enforcement of equal employment opportunity and fair housing the unfinished work of the first session must be completed the higher education act the juvenile delinquency act conservation measures to save the redwoods of california and to preserve the wonders of our scenic rivers the highway beautification act and all the other measures for a cleaner and for a better and for a more beautiful america next month we will begin our 8th year of uninterrupted prosperity the economic outlook for this year is one of steady we are vigilant true there are some clouds on the horizon prices are rising interest rates have passed the peak of 1966 and if there is continued inaction on the tax bill they will climb even higher i warn the congress and the nation tonight that this failure to act on the tax bill will sweep us into an accelerating spiral of price increases a slump in homebuilding and a continuing erosion of the american dollar this would be a tragedy for every american family and i predict that if this happens they will all let us know about it we those of us in the executive branch in the congress and the leaders of labor and business must do everything we can to prevent that kind of misfortune under the new budget the expenditures for 1969 will increase by billion receipts will increase by billion including the added tax revenues virtually all of this expenditure increase represents the mandatory cost of our defense efforts 3 billion increased interest almost 1 billion or mandatory payments under laws passed by congress such as those provided in the social security act that you passed in 1967 and to medicare and medicaid beneficiaries veterans and farmers of about 4 billion and the additional 1 billion 600 million next year for the pay increases that you passed in military and civilian pay that makes up the 10 billion that is added to the budget with few exceptions very few we are holding the fiscal 1969 budget to last year level outside of those mandatory and required increases a presidential commission composed of distinguished congressional fiscal leaders and other prominent americans recommended this year that we adopt a new budget approach i am carrying out their recommendations in this year budget this budget therefore for the first time accurately covers all federal expenditures and all federal receipts including for the first time in one budget 47 billion from the social security medicare highway and other trust funds the fiscal 1969 budget has expenditures of approximately 186 billion with total estimated revenues including the tax bill of about 178 billion if the congress enacts the tax increase we will reduce the budget deficit by some 12 billion the war in vietnam is costing us about 25 billion and we are asking for about 12 billion in taxes and if we get that 12 billion tax bill we will reduce the deficit from about 20 billion in 1968 to about 8 billion in 1969 now this is a tight budget it follows the reduction that i made in cooperation with the congress a reduction made after you had reviewed every appropriations bill and reduced the appropriations by some 5 or 6 billion and expenditures by billion we conferred together and i recommended to the congress and you subsequently approved taking 2 percent from payrolls and 10 percent from controllable expenditures we therefore reduced appropriations almost 10 billion last session and expenditures over 4 billion now that was in the budget last year i ask the congress to recognize that there are certain selected programs that meet the nation most urgent needs and they have increased we have insisted that decreases in very desirable but less urgent programs be made before we would approve any increases so i ask the congress tonight to hold its appropriations to the budget requests and to act responsibly early this year by enacting the tax surcharge which for the average american individual amounts to about a penny out of each dollar income this tax increase would yield about half of the 23 billion per year that we returned to the people in the tax reduction bills of 1964 and 1965 this must be a temporary measure which expires in less than 2 years congress can repeal it sooner if the need has passed but congress can never repeal inflation the leaders of american business and the leaders of american labor those who really have power over wages and prices must act responsibly and in their nation interest by keeping increases in line with productivity if our recognized leaders do not do this they and those for whom they speak and all of us are going to suffer very serious consequences on january 1st i outlined a program to reduce our balance of payments deficit sharply this year we will ask the congress to help carry out those parts of the program which require legislation we must restore equilibrium to our balance of payments we must also strengthen the international monetary system we have assured the world that america full gold stock stands behind our commitment to maintain the price of gold at 35 an ounce we must back this commitment by legislating now to free our gold reserves americans traveling more than any other people in history took 4 billion out of their country last year in travel costs we must try to reduce the travel deficit that we have of more than 2 billion we are hoping that we can reduce it by 500 million without unduly penalizing the travel of teachers students business people who have essential and necessary travel or people who have relatives abroad whom they want to see even with this reduction of 500 million the american people will still be traveling more overseas than they did in 1967 1966 or 1965 or any other year in their history if we act together as i hope we can i believe we can continue our economic expansion which has already broken all past records and i hope that we can continue that expansion in the days ahead each of these questions i have discussed with you tonight is a question of policy for our people therefore each of them should be and doubtless will be debated by candidates for public office this year i hope those debates will be marked by new proposals and by a seriousness that matches the gravity of the questions themselves these are not appropriate subjects for narrow partisan oratory they go to the heart of what we americans are all about all of us democrats and republicans tonight i have spoken of some of the goals i should like to see america reach many of them can be achieved this by the time we celebrate our nation 200th birthday the bicentennial of our independence several of these goals are going to be very hard to reach but the state of our union will be much stronger 8 years from now on our 200th birthday if we resolve to reach these goals now they are more more important than the identity of the party or the president who will then be in office these goals are what the fighting and our alliances are really meant to protect can we achieve these goals of course we can if we will if ever there was a people who sought more than mere abundance it is our people if ever there was a nation that was capable of solving its problems it is this nation if ever there were a time to know the pride and the excitement and the hope of being an american it is this time so this my friends is the state of our union seeking building tested many times in this past year and always equal to the test thank you and good night
delivered person joint session speaker president members congress fellow americans thinking walking aisle tonight sam rayburn told many years ago congress always extends warm welcome comes thank much come home democracy give constitution requires information state union report country challenged home abroad tried strength sense purpose ability achieve better america strength meet every challenge physical strength hold course decency compassion home moral strength support peace world report believe abiding conviction people nurtured deep faith tutored hard lessons moved high meet trials times impose since reported last january three elections held vietnam midst war constant threat violence president vice president house senate village officials chosen popular contested ballot enemy defeated battle battle number south vietnamese living areas government protection tonight grown million since january last year marks progress yet enemy continues pour men material across frontiers battle despite continuous heavy losses continues hope america persevere broken well wrong america persevere patience perseverance match power aggression never prevail goal peace peace earliest possible moment right exploring meaning hanoi recent statement mystery questions must answered bombing stopped believe talks follow san antonio formula stated last september said bombing would stop immediately talks would take place promptly reasonable hopes would productive side must take advantage restraint past nation simply accept anything less without jeopardizing lives men allies basis peace talks established san antonio foundations hope prayer would consult allies side see complete cessation hostilities really true could made first order business report earliest possible moment results explorations american people recently returned fruitful visit talks holiness pope share hope expressed earlier today sides extend effort bring end war vietnam today assured allies full part bring since spoke last january events occurred major consequences world peace kennedy round achieved greatest reduction tariff barriers history trade negotiations nations latin america punta del este resolved move toward economic integration asia nations korea japan indonesia singapore worked behind america shield strengthen economies broaden political cooperation africa distinguished vice president returned reports spirit regional cooperation beginning take hold practical ways events welcomed yet since last reported world confronted number crises war last june hot line washington moscow used first time history achieved without major power confrontation nations middle east opportunity cooperate ambassador jarring mission responsibility find terms living together stable peace dignity shall power help achieve result far scene conflict crisis flared cyprus involving two peoples america friends greece turkey able representative cyrus vance others helped ease tension turmoil continues mainland china year violent disruption radical extremism government isolated chinese people behind borders united states however remains willing permit travel journalists countries undertake cultural educational exchanges talk exchange basic food crop materials since spoke last united states soviet union taken several important steps toward goal international cooperation remember met chairman kosygin glassboro achieved accord least clearer understanding respective positions 2 days meeting believe nuclear danger must narrowed worked soviet union nations reach agreement halt spread nuclear weapons basis communications ambassador fisher geneva afternoon encouraged believe draft treaty laid conference geneva near future hope able present treaty senate year senate approval achieved 1967 consular treaty soviets first commercial air agreement two countries treaty banning weapons outer space shall sign submit senate shortly new treaty soviets others protection astronauts serious differences still remain us yet relations made progress since vienna berlin wall cuban missile crisis despite progress must maintain military force capable deterring threat nation security whatever mode aggression choices must confined total total acquiescence military force today shall maintain wish heart expenditures necessary build protect power could devoted programs peace world conditions permit peace assured america might america bravest sons wear nation uniform must continue stand guard us gallantly tonight vietnam places world yet neither great weapons individual courage provide conditions peace two decades america committed tyranny want ignorance world threatens peace shall sustain commitment year shall propose launch nations exploration ocean depths tap wealth energy abundance contribute fair share major expansion international development association increase resources asian development bank adopt prudent aid program rooted principle renew extend food freedom program food programs already helped millions avoid horrors famine unless rapid growth population developing countries slowed gap rich poor widen steadily governments developing countries must take facts consideration united states prepared help assist efforts must also improve lives children already born villages towns cities earth taught great teachers space communications miracle satellite going bring bear every resource mind technology help make dream come true let speak matters home tonight nation accomplishing people ever accomplished americans prosperous men never recorded history yet land certain restlessness questioning total nation annual production 800 billion 83 months nation steady upward trend growth american families see evidence growing abundance higher paychecks humming factories new cars moving new highways families homes equipped 70 million television sets new college founded every week today half high school graduates go college hundreds thousands fathers mothers never completed grammar school see children graduate college restlessness great ship cuts sea waters always stirred troubled ship moving moving troubled new waters moving toward new better shores ask achieve abundance shall use abundance abundance enough share abundance accomplished much much remains us meet much remains us master areas jobless rate still three four times national average violence shown face cities crime increases streets income farm workers remains far behind urban workers parity farmers produce food still hope achievement new housing construction far less need assure decent shelter every family hospital medical costs high rising many rivers air many cities remain badly polluted citizens suffer breathing air lived conditions like many many years much accepted inevitable find absolutely intolerable cities last summer saw wide gulf americans promise reality society know change day represents bitter consequences three centuries issue whether change issue whether change well know believe work months ahead us congress first essential jobs useful jobs tens thousands become productive pay way economy created 7 million new jobs past 4 years adding million half new jobs year programs passed congress job training given tonight million americans country year time come must get last line unemployed hardest reach employment officials estimate persons unemployed major cities america objective place private industry jobs within next 3 years propose 2 1 billion manpower program coming fiscal 25 percent increase current year increase used start new partnership government private industry train hire unemployed persons know task us importance us country future another essential rebuild cities last year congress authorized 662 million model cities program requested full amount authorization help meet crisis cities america congress appropriated 312 million less half year urge congress honor request model cities funds rebuild centers american cities granting us full amount congress authorized 1 billion next essential housing housing surely nation go moon place decent home within reach families therefore must call together resources industry labor start building housing units families next year three times year must make possible thousands families become homeowners propose consideration congress campaign build 6 million new housing units low families six million units next 10 years built last 10 years better health children children essential better america last year medicare medicaid new programs passed congress brought better health 25 million americans american medicine strong support cooperation public produced phenomenal decline death rate many dread diseases shocking fact saving lives babies america ranks 15th among nations world among children crippling defects often discovered late corrective action tragedy americans americans prevent shall therefore propose congress child health program provide next 5 years families unable afford access health services prenatal care mother child first year find best investment ever made get diseases infancy find cure great many instances never find overcrowding hospitals grown act advance consumer think help every american last year little fanfare congress executive branch moved field enacted wholesome meat act flammable fabrics act product safety commission law improve clinical laboratories think time come complete unfinished work senate already passed bill fire safety bill pipeline safety laws tonight plead house immediately act upon measures hope take favorable action upon call upon congress enact without delay remainder 12 vital consumer protection laws submitted congress last year also urge final action measure already passed house guard fraud manipulation nation commodity exchange market measures pledge keep safe homes work give fair deal marketplace think must propose new powers federal trade commission stop defraud swindle public new safeguards insure quality fish poultry safety community water supplies major study automobile insurance protection hazardous radiation television sets electronic equipment give consumer stronger voice plan appoint consumer counsel justice department lawyer american consumer work directly attorney general serve president special assistant consumer affairs serve consumers land congress democrats republicans earn thanks history make truly new day american consumer giving protection live history congress let us get work let us act soon every level government state local federal know american people enough rising crime lawlessness country recognize law enforcement first duty local police local government recognize frontline headquarters crime home church city hall county courthouse statehouse national capital washington people also recognize national government national government help cities states war crime full extent resources constitutional authority shall mean national police force mean help financial support develop state local master plans combat crime provide better training better pay police bring advanced technology war crime every city every county america urgent business congress pass safe streets act year proposed last year law provide required funds critically needed doubled request act 100 million fiscal 1969 urge congress stop trade murder stop year adopting proper gun control law year propose drug control act provide stricter penalties traffic lsd dangerous drugs people ask vigorous enforcement drug laws increasing number federal drug narcotics control officials 30 percent time come stop sale slavery young also request give us funds add immediately 100 assistant united states attorneys throughout land help prosecute criminal laws increased judiciary 40 percent increased prosecutors 16 percent dockets full cases assistant district attorneys go federal judge handle start young lawyers year docket clogged authority hire ask congress authority hire 100 young men give special attention drug abuse finally ask add 100 fbi agents strengthen law enforcement nation protect individual rights every citizen moment ago spoke despair frustrated hopes cities fires disorder burned last summer time change despair confidence change frustrations achievements violence never bring progress make progress attacking causes violence civil order founded justice today helping local officials improve capacity deal promptly disorders preach disorder preach violence must know local authorities able resist swiftly resist sternly resist decisively shall recommend actions raise farmers income establishing security commodity reserve protect market stocks protect consumer food scarcity shall recommend programs help farmers bargain effectively fair prices shall recommend programs new air safety measures measures stem rising costs medical care legislation encourage returning veterans devote careers community service teaching firemen joining police force law enforcement officials shall recommend programs strengthen finance efforts fully funding billion poverty program congress authorized order bring opportunity left far behind shall recommend educational opportunity act speed drive break financial barriers separating young people college shall also urge congress act several vital pending bills especially civil rights measures fair jury trials protection federal rights enforcement equal employment opportunity fair housing unfinished work first session must completed higher education act juvenile delinquency act conservation measures save redwoods california preserve wonders scenic rivers highway beautification act measures cleaner better beautiful america next month begin 8th year uninterrupted prosperity economic outlook year one steady vigilant true clouds horizon prices rising interest rates passed peak 1966 continued inaction tax bill climb even higher warn congress nation tonight failure act tax bill sweep us accelerating spiral price increases slump homebuilding continuing erosion american dollar would tragedy every american family predict happens let us know us executive branch congress leaders labor business must everything prevent kind misfortune new budget expenditures 1969 increase billion receipts increase billion including added tax revenues virtually expenditure increase represents mandatory cost defense efforts 3 billion increased interest almost 1 billion mandatory payments laws passed congress provided social security act passed 1967 medicare medicaid beneficiaries veterans farmers 4 billion additional 1 billion 600 million next year pay increases passed military civilian pay makes 10 billion added budget exceptions holding fiscal 1969 budget last year level outside mandatory required increases presidential commission composed distinguished congressional fiscal leaders prominent americans recommended year adopt new budget approach carrying recommendations year budget budget therefore first time accurately covers federal expenditures federal receipts including first time one budget 47 billion social security medicare highway trust funds fiscal 1969 budget expenditures approximately 186 billion total estimated revenues including tax bill 178 billion congress enacts tax increase reduce budget deficit 12 billion war vietnam costing us 25 billion asking 12 billion taxes get 12 billion tax bill reduce deficit 20 billion 1968 8 billion 1969 tight budget follows reduction made cooperation congress reduction made reviewed every appropriations bill reduced appropriations 5 6 billion expenditures billion conferred together recommended congress subsequently approved taking 2 percent payrolls 10 percent controllable expenditures therefore reduced appropriations almost 10 billion last session expenditures 4 billion budget last year ask congress recognize certain selected programs meet nation urgent needs increased insisted decreases desirable less urgent programs made would approve increases ask congress tonight hold appropriations budget requests act responsibly early year enacting tax surcharge average american individual amounts penny dollar income tax increase would yield half 23 billion per year returned people tax reduction bills 1964 1965 must temporary measure expires less 2 years congress repeal sooner need passed congress never repeal inflation leaders american business leaders american labor really power wages prices must act responsibly nation interest keeping increases line productivity recognized leaders speak us going suffer serious consequences january 1st outlined program reduce balance payments deficit sharply year ask congress help carry parts program require legislation must restore equilibrium balance payments must also strengthen international monetary system assured world america full gold stock stands behind commitment maintain price gold 35 ounce must back commitment legislating free gold reserves americans traveling people history took 4 billion country last year travel costs must try reduce travel deficit 2 billion hoping reduce 500 million without unduly penalizing travel teachers students business people essential necessary travel people relatives abroad want see even reduction 500 million american people still traveling overseas 1967 1966 1965 year history act together hope believe continue economic expansion already broken past records hope continue expansion days ahead questions discussed tonight question policy people therefore doubtless debated candidates public office year hope debates marked new proposals seriousness matches gravity questions appropriate subjects narrow partisan oratory go heart americans us democrats republicans tonight spoken goals like see america reach many achieved time celebrate nation 200th birthday bicentennial independence several goals going hard reach state union much stronger 8 years 200th birthday resolve reach goals important identity party president office goals fighting alliances really meant protect achieve goals course ever people sought mere abundance people ever nation capable solving problems nation ever time know pride excitement hope american time friends state union seeking building tested many times past year always equal test thank good night
deliver person joint session speaker president member congress fellow american think walk aisle tonight sam rayburn tell many year ago congress always extend warm welcome come thank much come home democracy give constitution require information state union report country challenge home abroad try strength sense purpose ability achieve good america strength meet every challenge physical strength hold course decency compassion home moral strength support peace world report believe abide conviction people nurtured deep faith tutor hard lesson move high meet trial time impose since report last january three election hold vietnam midst war constant threat violence president vice president house senate village official choose popular contest ballot enemy defeat battle battle number south vietnamese live area government protection tonight grow million since january last year mark progress yet enemy continue pour men material across frontier battle despite continuous heavy loss continue hope america persevere break well wrong america persevere patience perseverance match power aggression never prevail goal peace peace early possible moment right explore mean hanoi recent statement mystery question must answer bombing stop believe talk follow san antonio formula state last september say bombing would stop immediately talk would take place promptly reasonable hope would productive side must take advantage restraint past nation simply accept anything less without jeopardize life men ally basis peace talk establish san antonio foundation hope prayer would consult ally side see complete cessation hostility really true could make first order business report early possible moment result exploration american people recently return fruitful visit talk holiness pope share hope express earlier today side extend effort bring end war vietnam today assure ally full part bring since spoke last january event occur major consequence world peace kennedy round achieve great reduction tariff barrier history trade negotiation nation latin america punta del este resolve move toward economic integration asia nation korea japan indonesia singapore work behind america shield strengthen economy broaden political cooperation africa distinguish vice president return report spirit regional cooperation begin take hold practical way event welcome yet since last report world confront number crisis war last june hot line washington moscow use first time history achieve without major power confrontation nation middle east opportunity cooperate ambassador jar mission responsibility find term live together stable peace dignity shall power help achieve result far scene conflict crisis flare cyprus involve two people america friend greece turkey able representative cyrus vance others help ease tension turmoil continue mainland china year violent disruption radical extremism government isolate chinese people behind border united state however remain willing permit travel journalist country undertake cultural educational exchange talk exchange basic food crop material since spoke last united state soviet union take several important step toward goal international cooperation remember meet chairman kosygin glassboro achieve accord least clearer understand respective position 2 day meet believe nuclear danger must narrow work soviet union nation reach agreement halt spread nuclear weapon basis communication ambassador fisher geneva afternoon encourage believe draft treaty lay conference geneva near future hope able present treaty senate year senate approval achieve 1967 consular treaty soviet first commercial air agreement two country treaty ban weapon outer space shall sign submit senate shortly new treaty soviet others protection astronauts serious difference still remain u yet relation make progress since vienna berlin wall cuban missile crisis despite progress must maintain military force capable deter threat nation security whatever mode aggression choice must confine total total acquiescence military force today shall maintain wish heart expenditures necessary build protect power could devote program peace world condition permit peace assure america might america brave son wear nation uniform must continue stand guard u gallantly tonight vietnam place world yet neither great weapon individual courage provide condition peace two decade america commit tyranny want ignorance world threaten peace shall sustain commitment year shall propose launch nation exploration ocean depth tap wealth energy abundance contribute fair share major expansion international development association increase resource asian development bank adopt prudent aid program root principle renew extend food freedom program food program already help million avoid horror famine unless rapid growth population develop country slow gap rich poor widen steadily government develop country must take fact consideration united state prepare help assist effort must also improve life child already bear village town city earth taught great teacher space communication miracle satellite go bring bear every resource mind technology help make dream come true let speak matter home tonight nation accomplish people ever accomplish american prosperous men never record history yet land certain restlessness question total nation annual production 800 billion 83 month nation steady upward trend growth american family see evidence grow abundance high paycheck hum factory new car move new highway family home equip 70 million television set new college found every week today half high school graduate go college hundred thousand father mother never complete grammar school see child graduate college restlessness great ship cut sea water always stir troubled ship move move troubled new water move toward new good shore ask achieve abundance shall use abundance abundance enough share abundance accomplish much much remain u meet much remains u master area jobless rate still three four time national average violence show face city crime increase streets income farm worker remain far behind urban worker parity farmer produce food still hope achievement new housing construction far less need assure decent shelter every family hospital medical cost high rise many river air many city remain badly pollute citizen suffer breathe air live condition like many many year much accept inevitable find absolutely intolerable city last summer saw wide gulf american promise reality society know change day represent bitter consequence three century issue whether change issue whether change well know believe work month ahead u congress first essential job useful job tens thousand become productive pay way economy create 7 million new job past 4 year add million half new job year program pass congress job train give tonight million american country year time come must get last line unemployed hard reach employment official estimate person unemployed major city america objective place private industry job within next 3 year propose 2 1 billion manpower program come fiscal 25 percent increase current year increase use start new partnership government private industry train hire unemployed person know task u importance u country future another essential rebuild city last year congress authorize 662 million model city program request full amount authorization help meet crisis city america congress appropriate 312 million less half year urge congress honor request model city fund rebuild center american city grant u full amount congress authorize 1 billion next essential housing housing surely nation go moon place decent home within reach family therefore must call together resource industry labor start build housing unit family next year three time year must make possible thousand family become homeowner propose consideration congress campaign build 6 million new housing unit low family six million unit next 10 year build last 10 year well health child child essential good america last year medicare medicaid new program pass congress bring good health 25 million american american medicine strong support cooperation public produce phenomenal decline death rate many dread disease shock fact save life baby america rank 15th among nation world among child cripple defect often discover late corrective action tragedy american americans prevent shall therefore propose congress child health program provide next 5 year family unable afford access health service prenatal care mother child first year find best investment ever make get disease infancy find cure great many instance never find overcrowding hospital grow act advance consumer think help every american last year little fanfare congress executive branch move field enact wholesome meat act flammable fabric act product safety commission law improve clinical laboratory think time come complete unfinished work senate already pass bill fire safety bill pipeline safety law tonight plead house immediately act upon measure hope take favorable action upon call upon congress enact without delay remainder 12 vital consumer protection law submit congress last year also urge final action measure already pass house guard fraud manipulation nation commodity exchange market measure pledge keep safe home work give fair deal marketplace think must propose new power federal trade commission stop defraud swindle public new safeguard insure quality fish poultry safety community water supply major study automobile insurance protection hazardous radiation television set electronic equipment give consumer strong voice plan appoint consumer counsel justice department lawyer american consumer work directly attorney general serve president special assistant consumer affair serve consumer land congress democrat republicans earn thanks history make truly new day american consumer give protection live history congress let u get work let u act soon every level government state local federal know american people enough rise crime lawlessness country recognize law enforcement first duty local police local government recognize frontline headquarters crime home church city hall county courthouse statehouse national capital washington people also recognize national government national government help city state war crime full extent resource constitutional authority shall mean national police force mean help financial support develop state local master plan combat crime provide good train well pay police bring advanced technology war crime every city every county america urgent business congress pas safe street act year propose last year law provide require fund critically need double request act 100 million fiscal 1969 urge congress stop trade murder stop year adopt proper gun control law year propose drug control act provide strict penalty traffic lsd dangerous drug people ask vigorous enforcement drug law increase number federal drug narcotic control official 30 percent time come stop sale slavery young also request give u fund add immediately 100 assistant united state attorney throughout land help prosecute criminal law increase judiciary 40 percent increase prosecutor 16 percent docket full case assistant district attorney go federal judge handle start young lawyer year docket clog authority hire ask congress authority hire 100 young men give special attention drug abuse finally ask add 100 fbi agent strengthen law enforcement nation protect individual right every citizen moment ago speak despair frustrated hop city fire disorder burn last summer time change despair confidence change frustration achievement violence never bring progress make progress attacking cause violence civil order found justice today help local official improve capacity deal promptly disorder preach disorder preach violence must know local authority able resist swiftly resist sternly resist decisively shall recommend action raise farmer income establish security commodity reserve protect market stock protect consumer food scarcity shall recommend program help farmer bargain effectively fair price shall recommend program new air safety measure measure stem rise cost medical care legislation encourage return veteran devote career community service teach fireman join police force law enforcement official shall recommend program strengthen finance effort fully fund billion poverty program congress authorize order bring opportunity leave far behind shall recommend educational opportunity act speed drive break financial barrier separate young people college shall also urge congress act several vital pending bill especially civil right measure fair jury trial protection federal right enforcement equal employment opportunity fair housing unfinished work first session must complete high education act juvenile delinquency act conservation measure save redwood california preserve wonder scenic river highway beautification act measure clean well beautiful america next month begin 8th year uninterrupted prosperity economic outlook year one steady vigilant true cloud horizon price rise interest rate pass peak 1966 continue inaction tax bill climb even high warn congress nation tonight failure act tax bill sweep u accelerate spiral price increase slump homebuilding continue erosion american dollar would tragedy every american family predict happen let u know u executive branch congress leader labor business must everything prevent kind misfortune new budget expenditures 1969 increase billion receipt increase billion include added tax revenue virtually expenditure increase represent mandatory cost defense effort 3 billion increase interest almost 1 billion mandatory payment law pass congress provide social security act pass 1967 medicare medicaid beneficiary veterans farmer 4 billion additional 1 billion 600 million next year pay increase pass military civilian pay make 10 billion add budget exception hold fiscal 1969 budget last year level outside mandatory require increase presidential commission compose distinguished congressional fiscal leader prominent american recommend year adopt new budget approach carry recommendation year budget budget therefore first time accurately cover federal expenditure federal receipt include first time one budget 47 billion social security medicare highway trust fund fiscal 1969 budget expenditures approximately 186 billion total estimate revenue include tax bill 178 billion congress enacts tax increase reduce budget deficit 12 billion war vietnam cost u 25 billion ask 12 billion tax get 12 billion tax bill reduce deficit 20 billion 1968 8 billion 1969 tight budget follow reduction make cooperation congress reduction make review every appropriation bill reduce appropriation 5 6 billion expenditure billion confer together recommended congress subsequently approve take 2 percent payroll 10 percent controllable expenditure therefore reduce appropriation almost 10 billion last session expenditures 4 billion budget last year ask congress recognize certain select program meet nation urgent need increase insisted decrease desirable less urgent program make would approve increase ask congress tonight hold appropriation budget request act responsibly early year enact tax surcharge average american individual amount penny dollar income tax increase would yield half 23 billion per year return people tax reduction bill 1964 1965 must temporary measure expire less 2 year congress repeal sooner need pass congress never repeal inflation leader american business leader american labor really power wage price must act responsibly nation interest keep increase line productivity recognize leader speak u go suffer serious consequence january 1st outlined program reduce balance payment deficit sharply year ask congress help carry part program require legislation must restore equilibrium balance payment must also strengthen international monetary system assure world america full gold stock stand behind commitment maintain price gold 35 ounce must back commitment legislate free gold reserve americans travel people history take 4 billion country last year travel cost must try reduce travel deficit 2 billion hop reduce 500 million without unduly penalize travel teacher student business people essential necessary travel people relative abroad want see even reduction 500 million american people still travel overseas 1967 1966 1965 year history act together hope believe continue economic expansion already break past record hope continue expansion day ahead question discuss tonight question policy people therefore doubtless debated candidate public office year hope debate mark new proposal seriousness match gravity question appropriate subject narrow partisan oratory go heart americans u democrat republicans tonight spoken goal like see america reach many achieved time celebrate nation 200th birthday bicentennial independence several goal go hard reach state union much strong 8 year 200th birthday resolve reach goal important identity party president office goal fight alliance really meant protect achieve goal course ever people seek mere abundance people ever nation capable solve problem nation ever time know pride excitement hope american time friend state union seek building test many time past year always equal test thank good night