Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.