Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
There have always been extremists of both the left and the right in our country. There probably will always be. But if responsible and progressive elements can meet the needs of our people they will remain on the fringe.
Education is the key to the future for every one of our children. In a world such as this, it does not matter what material goods we leave our children.
Almost every man now working in the United States will have to change jobs, perhaps two or three times, and his lifetime. That will require new education for all our people—for those who could not complete college in the past, and even those who did.
As attorney general, I found crime to be, with civil rights, one of our two most serious domestic problems. The crime rate rises by seven percent a year, there is a robbery every five minutes, an aggravated assault every three minutes, a car stolen every minute.
Tags Share Perhaps the area of our greatest domestic failure is in the system of welfare—public assistance to those in need. There is a deep sense of dissatisfaction, among recipient and government alike, about what welfare has become over the last thirty years, and where it seems to be going. Welfare is many things to…
Tags Share Surrounded as we are by a crisis in Vietnam, civil strife in our great cities, and a division among our people, which often erupt in dramatic forms, it is easy to overlook the most profound crisis of all: the unprecedented and perilous drift of American society away from some of its most treasured…
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