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As such, I am charged with the constitutional duty, which I am resolved to carry out, of serving the interests of the members of every(prenominal) groups of our race and doing arbitrator to every man. It is in this spirit that I now come before you. For in administering the affairs of this nation, you and I share the common responsibility of providing the leadership, the guidance and the service that a democratic politics owes to the people.You and I must(prenominal) provide for their enjoyment of those basic requisites for decent living and of those adequate opportunities for the attainment of material prosperity and ghostly fulfillment. Only thus provide they be able to stand in dignity and freedom in the community of nations. We assume our joint responsibilities at a time when the Nation is faced with many heartrending line of works. The eyes of the world are focused on us, anxious to see how this new Government lead face the difficulties confronting it.Our performance allow be judged not only by our own people just now excessively by the other nations of the world, not only by the present save also by posterity. Because of the impelling and serious problems facing the country today, I should like to depart from the traditional practice of my notable predecessors of delivering an all-embracing State of the Nation message. I shall not burden you now with all the details commonly embodied in such a message, especially those related to the customary and routinary activities of the government.While it is recognized that such functions merit equal and proper attention, I believe it would be more in keeping with the exigencies of the moment to submit, at the proper time and in the hour of need, such special messages to relative on these matters as whitethorn be warranted by circumstances. In the interest of priority of purpose, therefore, I beg leave to submit for the comity of this Congress only the most paramount problems of the Nation which, in my considered opinion, require immediate and preferential attention. dictation OF OUR MISSIONIn my inaugural address, I set forth the goals of our Administration in the coming years, as follows 1. The solution of the problem of corruption 2. The attainment of self-sufficiency in the staple food of our people, namely, rice and corn 3. The creation of conditions that will provide more income to our peopleincome for those who have none and more income for those whose earnings are inadequate for their unproblematic needs 4. The establishment of practices that will strengthen the moral fiber of our nation and reintroduce those values that would glorify our democracy and 5.The launching of a bold but well-formulated socio-economic program that shall place the country on the passageway to prosperity for all our people. This five-fold mission may be carried out by resolving two study problems, namelythe need for moral regeneration and the problem of economic growth. Democracy on Tri al In the accomplishment of our mission, we have chosen the freedom of democracy as the context for the solution of our problems. Democracy is genuinely on trial along with us in our social and economic travails.By our success or nonstarter in leading the Nation from the abyss of want to the plateau of abundance, not only ourselves but also our way of life will be judged. If we falter, we shall fail democracy as well as our people and thus bolster communisms boast that it is a superior political system. But if we get by in laying a dynamic and permanent base for justice and prosperity in this country, we shall punish not only ourselves but democracy itself. Therefore, I first invite your attention to the decadent adduce of our public morality.Our efforts to achieve the goal of economic and social fulfillment will be more efficient and the results we obtain more permanent only if we can suffuse them with a pervasive moral regeneration. At my inauguration, I stated that I would seek to strengthen the nations moral fiber through formal modes of reform, enforcement of the laws and the exercise of the tremendous persuasive power of the Presidency in setting the personal congressman of honesty, uprightness and simple living.The enforcement of the law is solely the responsibility of the Executive Department, but I invite all to join the Executive in wielding the potent power of moral example, and I particularly urge the Congress to assist in conceiving those reforms that will contribute to a moral renaissance of our people. Let me, however, add that it is small effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them realize as they grow up that their elders are neither moral nor virtuous.We -must, therefore, see to it that the practices allowed by law in government and business, in the professions and labor unions, in field and factoryin every area of national attackconform as much as possible with the moral and the ethical. Such practices can be keep up and upheld only if we can at the same time create a sthrong public opinion that will actively approve them and vigilantly condemn the contrary. In our actions, we should not be guided only by what is legal. We must go beyond legality into the demands of morality. Our acts must not only be legal but must be moral as well.