RESPONSE OF THE PRESIDENT 679 



Someone asked me the other day about how I like to live in the 

 White House, and they told me it was off the record, and I said, 

 well, we do have our problems that we wake up early in the morn- 

 ing when the planes are coming back from the raids, we go to work 

 and we come to a late lunch and, if we are lucky, we get a little nap 

 after a bowl of soup, and get refreshed for the next part of that day, 

 from 4 to 12; but sometimes I am interrupted in that nap by Lady 

 Bird and Laurance Rockefeller and others in the next room, talking 

 about flowers, roadsides, and so forth. This afternoon, after a par- 

 ticularly hectic day yesterday and after a late lunch, I went in about 

 4 : 15 to get my afternoon nap in preparation for a day that will carry 

 me up to midnight, and I dozed off to sleep immediately after I put 

 my head on the pillow. And sometime or other I awakened and I 

 could hear a little soft music in the background and a lot of conver- 

 sation and I said, "My! Am I dreaming? Is Laurance Rockefeller 

 back in town again?" And I got up and went out and pulled the 

 curtain and peeped behind it and looked, and there was not only 

 Laurance Rockefeller and Lady Bird and the 60 that started out 

 with them, but a thousand more that joined them. 



Now, what are we going to do about all this here in the Federal 

 Government? Well, first, after I review all your reports, I am going 

 to send them to the members of my staff and all the members of the 

 Cabinet. They are going to be instructed to review all of your 

 recommendations for Federal action. As many as feasible are go- 

 ing to be included in my next State of the Union message and my 

 next legislative program to the Congress. 



I hope that you won't keep this conference and its achievements 

 and its hopes and its dreams and its plans a secret from those Mem- 

 bers of Congress from your State. 



In this hour of our national history I am proud to report to you 

 that I doubt that we have ever had groups working more together, 

 with more of them with their shoulder to the wheel. The captains 

 of industry, the managers of business, the holders of stock, the labor- 

 ers and the workers in the mills and the mines, the women have 

 come out of the kitchen, have gone out among us to lead the more 

 modest ones, the minority groups, all of them. Through their Con- 

 gress they are working to give us the greatest legislative program 

 that this country has ever written. There is less hate, there is less 

 bigotry, there is less prejudice, there is less jealousy, there is less parti- 

 sanship in your Congress among your Members of the House and 



