I have been interested in the matter of our city areas for many years.

All practicable action should be taken to implement these recommendations.

I want to express a very warm welcome to all of you, and particularly to our distinguished guests, Mr. and Madame Malraux.

So we regard him as an honored guest in this country--as participants in the cultural stream and also as admirers of those who travel the far horizons of human destiny.

In addition, all of us--and I want to stress this particularly--regard courage as perhaps the outstanding of the human virtues and particularly in all these cases as I have read them, they required immediate reaction, not a deliberate one.

President Kennedy paid tribute to the many common ties and democratic ideals Norway and the United States share.

I speak in behalf of all of us to all of you and tell you how proud we are to have you here.

I want to express my compliments to the American Automobile Association for giving recognition to this work.

So I hope you will drink to all of us, in the sense that you are leaders in our free society-and particularly to our distinguished leader whom we are very glad to have with us tonight--and most especially to drink to the President of…

And I would hope that this tremendous energy obtained in the intellectual life of America could be communicated not only to people in this country but all around the world.

But I want to say that there is a tradition in that regard, with Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In my opinion, the ultimate in self-discipline is a creative work.

And we are glad to have Mr. Malraux and Madame Malraux here because we believe that they will go back to France and say a kind word for the United States--and its President.

He kept the peace with France.

So you are what we depend upon, and I'm glad to see some attention being given to the good deeds of our young people--and we want to congratulate you.

We do not manage our cultural life in this country, nor does any free society, but it is an important part.

We regard this as the greatest possible compliment.

This strikes me as reasonable initial steps.

One of the most appealing features of this undertaking is that it has been initiated and will be financed by private industry.

I hope that you will think well of this country and recognize what we are trying to do.

Paint me with all my warts and moles.

You have the encouragement of this administration, and we hope that your efforts will be as successful as your hopes.

To run a free society is very difficult.

I am reading more and enjoying it less.

I hope that all of you will join in drinking to His Majesty the King.