If we could increase our exports by 10 percent, we would have solved our balance of payments problem.
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Remarks to Members of the Illinois Trade Mission to Europe.
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I think that in the years to come those who have been engaged in this enterprise can feel the greatest source of pride and satisfaction.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
I want to express my very sincere thanks to all of you and the companies you represent which led the way.
And to weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy, it will hamper our security.





