The United States will enter into no ultimate agreement unless progress is registered toward trade liberalization on the products of our farms as well as our factories.

I hope that our friends in other lands will neither underestimate or undervalue the strength of American support for success of the trade negotiations that we have entered.

We must help developing countries because our own welfare demands it.

These just desires, once unleashed, can never again be stifled.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Our gross national product in this, the richest of all nations, this quarter, is running at the rate of $608.5 billion.

They know now that depression and despair are not the ordained lot of man.

We will need at all times, of course, to be firm.

I ask myself, 'What did we do today that we can point to for generations to come, to say that we laid the foundation for a better and more peaceful and more prosperous world?'

If you do that, I have no doubt about the results.

It is all very well for us to make lofty statements about the ideals of our democratic society, but such statements have very little meaning unless they are backed up in actual practice.

I can only hope that Presidents are not put to any such test.

Secretary Rusk has just made a very interesting and informative report on his meeting with SEATO and with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Ambassador Lodge in Saigon.

The Secretary will be glad to make a statement to you at this time.

It is with this belief that I challenge the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution to even greater service to your fellow Americans.

The Nation is the beneficiary today of a good man and a great talent who places his skills and his courage at the disposal of his fellow countrymen.

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the most pleasant moments in the life of a President is to be present and to help officiate at the swearing in of an able and competent and dedicated American who has agreed to go to work for the Government.

I WANT to extend my warm greetings and those of Mrs. Johnson to the Daughters of the American Revolution on the occasion of your 73d Continental Congress.