US Presidency
1964

If we are to heal our history and make this Nation whole, prosperity must know no Mason-Dixon line and opportunity must know no colorline. Robert E. Lee, a great son of the South, a great leader of the South andI assume no modern day leader would question him or challenge him -Robert and/or counseled us well when he told us to cast off our animosities, and raiseour sons to be Americans. From the tip of Texas to the tip of Florida, this crescent of theGulf offers one of the great opportunities of the Western World. I want to seethat opportunity fulfilled. I want us to wipe poverty off the face of the South and off theconscience of the Nation. I want us to assure our young the best of education at everylevel, and the expectation of a good job in their home State when their schoolyears are through.