"I urge that you use this occasion to re-examine all of your overseas programs with the utmost care."
"We are determined to do whatever is necessary to keep the economy expanding and avoid inflationary bottlenecks."
"Attaining an unemployment rate of 3.7% is a triumph for our Nation's economy."
"Mr. Staats holds a unique and a very vital position in our government."
"Your objective should be to maximize receipts and to minimize expenditures abroad consistent with the achievement of U.S. objectives."
"We must eliminate the discrimination which wastes our manpower resources."
"The future can be and ought to be a time of opportunity."
"A manpower policy must be based on belief in the value of the individual and in the promise of welcome change."
"We already have many effective tools of an active manpower policy."
"He declares his faith in the hopes of this nation, and in the people who try to faithfully serve it."
"No society can be truly great--and no economy can be truly prosperous--if high, long-duration unemployment for some exists side by side with low, short-term unemployment for others."
"Low educational attainment is a product, and in turn a producer, of poverty, unemployment, and discrimination."
"In those beginning days, the man always by my side was Elmer Staats."
"Whenever there is a collision with fate, when history stops for a moment of crisis--it is the doubter who runs from the test of courage--and it is the builder who is firm in the face of fear."
"$110.92 the weekly earnings reached for the American factory worker."
"And that is why I chose him for this new assignment."
"There are 2 1/2 million men and women in the Federal Government who work each day to advance the progress of this uncommon land."
"The real basis of manpower policy is more fundamental."
