If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Come now. let us reason together.

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.