I will nominate Julius B. Richmond to be Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

I think that there's a growing realization that you can have equality of opportunity and freedom at the same time.

I think you are perhaps luckier because your innate abilities have been recognized and nourished.

I believe that our Government is the best on Earth.

Don't look on your recognition as superior achievers to be a sense of superiority of yourselves over others.

I'm very proud of you.

I urge everyone who participates in boating on American waterways to learn the basic rules of safety.

And since you are at least a temporary public servant as you have come to government, I hope that you will take home those commitments.

I hope that the openness that we try to institute in Government will be constructive.

I'm determined that not only should the world think well of us but that our people should think well of our own Government.

The Board for International Broadcasting was established as a result of the recommendations of the Milton Eisenhower Commission.

Members of the Board are to be 'selected by the President from among Americans distinguished in the fields of foreign policy or mass communications.'

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5317 of Title 5 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States of America, Section 2 of Executive Order No. 11861, as amended, placing certain positions in level V of the…

The International Broadcasting Act of 1973 set up the Board 'to provide an effective instrumentality for the continuation of assistance to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.'

I ask all Americans to make a special effort this year to let our Nation's fathers know that they will always have our love and gratitude.

I will nominate Esther C. Wunnicke of Anchorage, Alaska, to be a member of the Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska.

I will nominate Roland R. Mora, of Mission Viejo, Calif., to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment.

I think her concern about moving to a strange city, Washington, D.C.--those concerns have not materialized, and she likes Washington very much.