I will ask for more vigorous enforcement of all of our drug laws by increasing the number of Federal drug and narcotics control officials by more than 30 percent.  The time has come to stop the sale of slavery to the young.  I also request you to give us funds to add immediately 100 assistant United States attorneys throughout the land to help prosecute our criminal laws.  We have increased our judiciary by 40 percent and we have increased our prosecutors by 16 percent.  The dockets are full of cases because we don’t have assistant district attorneys to go before the Federal judge and handle them.  We start these young lawyers at $8,200 a year.  And the docket is clogged because we don’t have authority to hire more of them.

I ask the Congress for authority to hire 100 more.  These young men will give special attention to this drug abuse, too.

Finally, I ask you to add 100 FBI agents to strengthen law enforcement in the Nation and to protect the individual rights of every citizen.

A moment ago I spoke of despair and frustrated hopes in the cities where the fires of disorder burned last summer.  We can—­and in time we will—­change that despair into confidence, and change those frustrations into achievements.  But violence will never bring progress.

We can make progress only by attacking the causes of violence and only where there is civil order founded on justice.

Today we are helping local officials improve their capacity to deal promptly with disorders.

Those who preach disorder and those who preach violence must know that local authorities are able to resist them swiftly, to resist them sternly, and to resist them decisively.

I shall recommend other actions: 

—­To raise the farmers’ income by establishing a security commodity reserve that will protect the market from price-depressing stocks and protect the consumer from food scarcity.

—­I shall recommend programs to help farmers bargain more effectively for fair prices.

—­I shall recommend programs for new air safety measures.

—­Measures to stem the rising costs of medical care.

—­Legislation to encourage our returning veterans to devote themselves to careers in community service such as teaching, and being firemen, and joining our police force, and our law enforcement officials.

—­I shall recommend programs to strengthen and finance our anti-pollution efforts.

—­Fully funding all of the $2.18 billion poverty program that you in the Congress had just authorized in order to bring opportunity to those who have been left far behind.

—­I shall recommend an Educational Opportunity Act to speed up our drive to break down the financial barriers that are separating our young people from college.

I shall also urge the Congress to act on several other vital pending bills—­especially the civil rights measures—­fair jury trials, protection of Federal rights, enforcement of equal employment opportunity, and fair housing.