But it’s not enough to have created a lot of government programs.  Now we must make the good programs more effective and improve or weed out those which are wasteful or unnecessary.

With the support of the Congress, we’ve begun to reorganize and to get control of the bureaucracy.  We are reforming the civil service system, so that we can recognize and reward those who do a good job and correct or remove those who do not.

This year, we must extend major reorganization efforts to education, to economic development, and to the management of our natural resources.  We need to enact a sunshine [sunset] law that when government programs have outlived their value, they will automatically be terminated.

There’s no such thing as an effective and a noncontroversial reorganization and reform.  But we know that honest, effective government is essential to restore public faith in our public action.

None of us can be satisfied when two-thirds of the American citizens chose not to vote last year in a national election.  Too many Americans feel powerless against the influence of private lobbying groups and the unbelievable flood of private campaign money which threatens our electoral process.

This year, we must regain the public’s faith by requiring limited financial funds from public funds for congressional election campaigns.  House bill 1 provides for this public financing of campaigns.  And I look forward with a great deal of anticipation to signing it at an early date.

A strong economy and an effective government will restore confidence in America.  But the path of the future must be charted in peace.  We must continue to build a new and a firm foundation for a stable world community.

We are building that new foundation from a position of national strength—­the strength of our own defenses, the strength of our friendships with other nations, and of our oldest American ideals.

America’s military power is a major force for security and stability in the world.  We must maintain our strategic capability and continue the progress of the last 2 years with our NATO Allies, with whom we have increased our readiness, modernized our equipment, and strengthened our defense forces in Europe.  I urge you to support the strong defense budget which I have proposed to the Congress.

But our national security in this complicated age requires more than just military might.  In less than a lifetime, world population has more than doubled, colonial empires have disappeared, and a hundred new nations have been born, and migration to the world’s cities have all awakened new yearnings for economic justice and human rights among people everywhere.

This demand for justice and human rights is a wave of the future.  In such a world, the choice is not which super power will dominate the world.  None can and none will.  The choice instead is between a world of anarchy and destruction, or a world of cooperation and peace.