Wages and profits and family income are also at their highest levels in history—­but I would remind you that 4 million workers and 13 percent of our industrial capacity are still idle today.

We need a tax cut now to keep this country moving.  V.

For our goal is not merely to spread the work.  Our goal is to create more jobs.  I believe the enactment of a 35-hour week would sharply increase costs, would invite inflation, would impair our ability to compete, and merely share instead of creating employment.  But I am equally opposed to the 45- or 50-hour week in those industries where consistently excessive use of overtime causes increased unemployment.

So, therefore, I recommend legislation authorizing the creation of a tripartite industry committee to determine on an industry-by-industry basis as to where a higher penalty rate for overtime would increase job openings without unduly increasing costs, and authorizing the establishment of such higher rates.  VI.

Let me make one principle of this administration abundantly clear:  All of these increased opportunities—­in employment, in education, in housing, and in every field—­must be open to Americans of every color.  As far as the writ of Federal law will run, we must abolish not some, but all racial discrimination.  For this is not merely an economic issue, or a social, political, or international issue.  It is a moral issue, and it must be met by the passage this session of the bill now pending in the House.

All members of the public should have equal access to facilities open to the public.  All members of the public should be equally eligible for Federal benefits that are financed by the public.  All members of the public should have an equal chance to vote for public officials and to send their children to good public schools and to contribute their talents to the public good.

Today, Americans of all races stand side by side in Berlin and in Viet Nam.  They died side by side in Korea.  Surely they can work and eat and travel side by side in their own country.  VII.

We must also lift by legislation the bars of discrimination against those who seek entry into our country, particularly those who have much needed skills and those joining their families.

In establishing preferences, a nation that was built by the immigrants of all lands can ask those who now seek admission:  “What can you do for our country?” But we should not be asking:  “In what country were you born?” VIII.

For our ultimate goal is a world without war, a world made safe for diversity, in which all men, goods, and ideas can freely move across every border and every boundary.

We must advance toward this goal in 1964 in at least 10 different ways, not as partisans, but as patriots.