01/06/1961
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"I really believe that we should increase our percentages of career people just so far as it can possibly be done."
"I don't think there is much to add to it."
"I am firmly committed to the idea that the primary and basic responsibility in these matters rests with the communities and with the States."
"I think most of us here have visited some of those embassies, and you see the staffs of assistants and servants."