For today, miracles in communication are our daily routine. Every minute, billions of telegraph messages chatter around the world. They interrupt law enforcement conferences and discussions of morality. Billions of signals rush over the ocean floor and fly above the clouds. Radio and television fill the air with sound.
Satellites hurl messages thousands of miles in a matter of seconds.
The law that I will sign shortly offers one answer to that question. We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act. It will launch a major study of television's use in the Nation's classrooms and their potential use throughout the world.