It is my purpose, and I am sure it is the Chancellor's, that the close relationship and healthy friendship that have developed between our countries over the past years will become ever closer.

I have had extended conversations with Mr. Hoover, first with his son who talked for him over the phone right after I took the oath as President, and later with President Hoover personally.

Yes, it will be the budget for next year; the steps we have taken with regard to effecting economies in the Federal Government; the ceilings that we have placed on each department; the new targets, the goals that we will have; the economic…

The Federal Government must be a model of competent and efficient management, with economy the watchword, and an end to waste our goal.

This is, in any case, inappropriate when innocent human lives are at stake.

I will not presume to judge the root causes, or rights and wrongs as between Cypriots of the two communities.

I will review them personally.

I want you to report these targets to me promptly.

As soon as these figures reach you, I want you personally to reexamine your employment situation and to establish new end-of-year targets below these maximums.

Like President Kennedy I am convinced that in the building of a better world, there is no area more important that Latin America.

Let there be for all people in need the light of an era of new hope and a time of new resolve.

He will live on in our hearts, which will be his shrine.

May God bless this land and all who live in it.

There is a turning toward those things which are true, those things which are profound, and those things which are eternal.

There is a turning away from things which are false and things which are small, and things which are shallow.

Between tonight and Christmas Eve, let each American family, whatever their station, whatever their religion, whatever their race or their region--let each American family devote time to sharing with others something of themselves; yes…

We must remember, and we must never forget, that the hopes and the fears of all the years rest with us, as with no other people in all history.

Tonight we come to the end of the season of great national sorrow, and to the beginning of the season of great, eternal joy.