After the battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson said that he was fighting for the re-establishment of the American character.

The experience of the European Common Market, where tariffs were gradually cut down, has shown that increased trade brings employment.

This Administration was not elected to preside over the liquidation of American responsibility in these great years.

I would like to express my very great thanks on behalf of all of us to all of you.

Unless we have the resources to finance those great expenditures which in the last year totaled over three billion dollars, we cannot meet our commitments and maintain our defense of freedom.

I hope that all Americans realize what you're doing.

We cannot sell unless we buy.

One answer to this problem is the negative answer: raise our tariffs, restrict our capital, pull back from the world—and our adversaries would only be too glad to fill any gap that we should leave.

I know that you all join me in welcoming the Chancellor, the foreign Minister, the State Secretary, and the Ambassador of Austria and the other members of his party, here to the United States.

So, Chancellor, Minister, Ambassador, ladies and gentlemen, I know that you will join with me in drinking to our guests, to the country they represent--and to the President of Austria.

We are very glad to have you here, Chancellor.

the Department has accepted a crucial and responsible role in cultivating understanding among labor organizations throughout the world and in fostering free labor institutions in other nations

the Department, as a guardian of the public interest, has proven its dedication to sound labor-management relations, has clearly recognized its responsibility to assist the business and industrial community to achieve economic growth and…

the Department has striven faithfully over the years to shape sound, policies for meeting the Nation's manpower needs and for developing and utilizing the potentials of all our labor force in productive and satisfying employment

the success of our economy and the well-being of our Nation are dependent upon the skills, energies, talents, and security of the individual American wage earner

to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment

I hereby terminate the said proclamation, effective on the day following the date hereof.

acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim

They discussed problems of mutual commercial interest, including questions of shipping policy, tariffs and commodity problems.

So I want you to know that you are most welcome here.

I regard this as the most distinguished and significant dinner that we have had in the White House since I have been here.

In any case, I am delighted to welcome you here.

I want to tell you how proud I am as President of the United States to welcome you all--those of you who are descended from those who won this Nation's highest decoration and those of you who carry it now.

Your credentials to come into the White House are second to none, and we are very glad to have you.

I know--and gives me as an American a source of satisfaction to realize that we are the inheritors of that great martial tradition--and particularly those who won this medal, which is of course most coveted and most rare.