So if you can find new markets, if you can persuade others to come to the United States--we lose in our balance of payments every year $1,800 million on tourists alone; if we could get as many people to come here and spend the same money that our peripatetic, ubiquitous Americans spend, Senator, traveling around--if we could get them, we could solve our balance of payments problem.
Remarks to Members of the Illinois Trade Mission to Europe.
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Well, I don't think it is probably useful to discuss it in detail here.
No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.
The recommendations are likewise acceptable to me, and will be included in my budget recommendations to the Congress in January.
But don't make it impossible for us to function by legislative restraints or inadequate appropriations.
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