US Presidency
1966

By 1968, 13,000 new village classrooms will have been built to provide for over three quarters of a million young schoolchildren. We have helped to distribute 7 million textbooks in the past 3 years and we are providing 1,700 new teachers every year. More than 10,000 Vietnamese are now receiving vocational training as a result of the program we have laid out in that country. I believe this is a good record. It's a record I would like the American people to know more about. I hope that they will study it, observe it, give us their suggestions in the days to come. We have not waited for the fighting to end before we have the beginnings of the works of peace. We are even now attacking with all of our strength the basic problems in Vietnam -illiteracy, poverty, disease. It is these problems that bring on the wars. We must continue to press this battle forward, and we will do so. Mr.