International relations

I summarized briefly my hopes in the seven-nation conference coming up.

We will encourage every constructive enrichment of the human, cultural, and commercial ties between Eastern Europe and the West.

We have sought the help of the United Nations in arranging international peace talks.

We are watching the situation in Vietnam very closely.

Effective public support for the United Nations depends upon a sober appraisal of its accomplishments

I do hereby proclaim Monday, October 24, 1966, as United Nations Day

This year the United Nations is twenty-one years old, and Americans should join other peoples of the world in welcoming it to majority.

UN Day should have special significance for Americans.

Earlier this afternoon he reported to me privately in some detail about the events in his area of the world and his evaluation of the situation there.

Mr. Prime Minister, let me assure you that we Americans do understand your language.

I call upon my fellow countrymen to renew their commitment to our neighbors in this hemisphere, and to reaffirm that commitment by support for the Organization of American States.

During their discussions, President Johnson and Prime Minister Gandhi reviewed recent developments in south and southeast Asia in the context of the universal desire of men and women everywhere to achieve peace.

Our merchant marine is also vital to our friends all over the world.

The Asian Development Bank is the first step of what I conceive to be a very long journey.

The act I sign this morning authorizes the United States of America to ratify the charter of the Asian Development Bank.

I believe that those who make that case are no less patriotic and no less sincere than those who believe that we cannot shorten the length of our reach into the world.

First, for the Asian leaders, who conceived and organized the bank and who are so ably represented here today by the Ambassadors from their countries.

In my Baltimore declaration of April of last year, I said to the people of the world how much we would welcome taking some of the funds that we are now spending in bombs and bullets and putting in efforts to rid that area of disease and…