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Any increase which does cause or contribute to inflation will not benefit labor.

Government productivity should increase, too, and it must.

The Chemical Composition of Representative Grades of 1952 and 1954 Crops of Flue-Cured Tobacco, $1870; the Story of the Patent Office, $2,000; the Highways of History, $700; Improvements in Printing and Reproduction Techniques, a total…

Honest mistakes can be forgiven, but it is hard to forgive failures to examine and tighten agency procedures to guard against a recurrence of an error.

In less than 2 months we have made a reduction of 98 in the number of questionnaires, surveys, and other reports.

We should never relax our efforts to give the American people a dollar's worth of value for a dollar spent.

I want you personally to take command of developing the information to help us define the problems that we must deal with in our budget next fall.

Buy only what you must buy and get the best price you can.

Our efforts to increase efficiency and economy in the executive branch, we ought to be as unsatisfied as a little boy's appetite.

Our responsibility to our country, as President John Kennedy said, 'is not discharged by an announcement of virtuous ends.'

I hope that many of my fellow citizens will follow this example.

I am very proud today to buy the first of the new $75 denomination United States savings bonds, a bond which bears the portrait of our late, beloved, and brave President John F. Kennedy.

Buying bonds for our Nation's security is a sure way to express such confidence and I take pride and pleasure in presenting my check for the first $75 bond to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Dillon.

For our efforts to build a great society in this Nation are being opposed by those who suffer from a handicap not of the body or the mind, but of the soul.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and now if you will join me, we will go to lunch over in the Mansion.

I am convinced that it is morally right, that it is socially just, that it is economically sensible, that it is administratively feasible to open the door of employment opportunity to handicapped Americans.

This is a proud day for the Republic.

I wanted to be a teacher, and was until the pay scale pushed me into the line of work that I am now in.