US Presidency
1967

There are four people out of every 10 today who can not read cat, who can not spell dog, who can not recognize the printed word mother. I would like to see every boy and girl who is born in the world have all the education that he or she can take. We are making great gains in that direction in this country. I would like to see other nations make great gains. I would like to see an enlightened program of family planning available to all the peoples of the world. I would like to see the problem of food production faced up to and nations take the necessary steps to try to provide the food that they are going to need to support their populations. I would like to see the miracles of health extended to all the peoples of the world as they were to the fellow who was operated on with the heart change the other day. I know that the infant mortality rate is going down.