US Presidency
1965

Let a just nation throw open to them the city of promise: ' to the elderly, by providing hospital care under social security and by raising benefit payments to those struggling to maintain the dignity of their later years; ' to the poor and the unfortunate, through doubling the war against poverty this year; ' to Negro Americans, through enforcement of the civil rights law and elimination of barriers to the right to vote; ' to those in other lands that are seeking the promise of America, through an immigration law based on the work a man can do and not where he was born or how he spells his name. Our third goal is to improve the quality of American life. We begin with learning. Every child must have the best education that this nation can provide. Thomas Jefferson said that no nation can be both ignorant and free. Today no nation can be both ignorant and great.