I want you to take steps immediately to see that there is no so-called 'June buying' in your department or agency this year.

I am asking each of you personally to do whatever is necessary to insure that in your department or agency:--orders for supplies, materials, and equipment are kept to the minimum needed to carry on essential, approved programs.

My January budget forecasts that 215,000 handicapped individuals will be rehabilitated during fiscal year 1967, a 25% increase over the current fiscal year.

We might have to ask for extra money.

We must remember that our budgetary costs--our current out-of-pocket expenditures--do not always provide a true measure of the cost of Government activities.

Each of you is requested to designate an assistant secretary or other official of comparable rank to review new proposals for the agency to provide its own supplies or services before they are included in the agency's budget.

Education gets more money in this budget than any other items except interest on the public debt, some $12 billion, and the Defense Department, which, as you know, exceeds $50 billion.

I see nothing at all wrong in returning unused appropriation balances to the Treasury.

During those 2 months we spent $676 million less than we spent last July and last August, a year ago

I commend the report for your consideration in connection with the budget request and the need for new legislation to stimulate research in the field of water resources at the colleges and universities.

I am asking the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to take the lead in assuring an effective and equitable application of those guidelines.

An unbalanced economy does not produce a balanced budget.

The proposals that we will make will not of themselves unbalance the budget.

It does not represent a drain on the Treasury of $2 billion, because it is paid for on the way.

I declare, if you could provide for the government, through the Bureau of the Budget, a new accounting system, with the utmost expedition and efficiency, it would certainly take you many months before you could reach the last echelon of government.

In my own instructions to the Cabinet and heads of all offices, I have told them that every place that there is a chance to save a dollar out of the money that we have budgeted and may be appropriated by the Congress, that will go on through the entire period.

I am sure that the first thing we must do is balance the budget.

I share your concern about the magnitude of Federal expenditures.