US Presidency
1967

I have come tonight m ask this Congress and this Nation to resolve that issue: to meet our commitments at home and abroad to continue to build a better America- and to reaffirm this Nation's allegiance to freedom. As President Abraham Lincoln said, We must ask where we are, and whither we are tending. The last 3 years bear witness to our determination to make this a better country. We have struck down legal barriers to equality. We have improved the education of 7 million deprived children and this year alone we have enabled almost 1 million students to go to college. We have brought medical care to older people who were unable to afford it. Three and one-half million Americans have already received treatment under Medicare since July. We have built a strong economy that has put almost 3 million more Americans on the payrolls in the last year alone. We have included more than 9 million new workers under a higher minimum wage. We have launched new training programs to provide job skills for almost 1 million Americans.