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Congress'  \nthe House and Senate,the Act now becomes Public Law 88-204.  \nThe President's statement follows:  \nHigher EducationandNational Affairs  \nPresident Signs Higher Education,Vocational Education Bills Into Law*  **  \nUSOE Sets Sites,Dates for FiveMeetings on Higher Education Act  \nAmerican Council on Education。1785 Massachusetts Avenue,N.W.,Washington 36,D.C.  \nDecember 20,1963  \nIn a White House ceremony attended by some 60 Congressmen,Federal Government officials,and prominent educators,PresidentJohnson on December 16 signed into law the Higher EducationFacilities Act of 1963.Known as HR 6143 as it made its way through  \nPresident Johnson termed the act \"the most significant education bill passed by the Con-gress in the history of the Republic,\"and he added that because of this and other recently-enacted laws,\"this session of the Congress will go down in history as the Education Congressof 1963.11  \nThe President listed 13 actions in the field of education that the 88th Congress has takenduring its first session.He also cited \"growing national needs\"in education which the Congresshas not met and called for enactment of programs to assist elementary and secondary edu-cation,combat adult illiteracy,expand adult education,and improve the quality of educationat all levels.  \nI am proud and happy to approve at this time the Morse-Green bill,the HigherEducation Facilities Act of 1963,and to especially compliment Chairman Powell,Congresswoman Green,and their colleagues in the House,Senator Morse and hiscolleagues in the Senate,and everyone else who worked so hard for the passage ofthis very important legislation.  \nA great former president of the Republic of my State said The educated man isthe guardian genius of democracy.It is the only dictator that free men recognize andthe only ruler that free men desire.\"So this new law is the most significant educa-tion bill passed by the Congress in the history of the Republic.In fact,this sessionof the Congress will go down in history as the Education Congress of 1963,and everyperson here this morning who has been invited to come to the White House at the re-quest of the President can be very proud,and their children can be very proud,ofthe part they played in the enactment of this legislation.  \nWorking together,the Congress and the Executive Branch have made possible theenactment of a series of legislative landmarks in the field of education.Under thesevarious measures:  \n1.We will help to provide college classrooms for several hundred thousand morestudents who will nearly double college enrollment in this decade.  \n2.We will help to build 25 to 30 new public community colleges every year.  \n3.We will help to construct the technical institutes that are needed to close thegap in this crucial area of trained manpower.  \n4.We will help to build graduate schools and facilities in at least 10 to 20 majoracademic centers.  \n5.We will help to improve the quality of library facilities in our universitiesand colleges.  \n6.We will increase the number of medical school graduates and we will relievethe growing shortages of physicians and dentists and other needed professional healthpersonnel.  \n7.We will enable some 70,000 to 90,000 additional students to attend collegeeach year under an expanded loan program.  \n8.We will modernize and expand our Federal-State programs for vocationaleducation in order to train for the changing world of work the eight out of ten youngpeople who will never obtain a college education.  \n9.We will reduce the shortage of qualified personnel for the training and teach-ing of mentally retarded and other handicapped children.  \n10.We will expand our manpower development and training program to meet thegrowing problem of untrained,unemployed school drop-outs.  \n11.We will expand programs for teaching science and mathematics and foreignlanguages,while extending the other valuable 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