While we recognize that the core of Western security against armed aggression continues to be the North Atlantic Alliance, we also discussed how our countries can help to strengthen the Free World as a whole.

Open and friendly discussions have served to clarify and confirm our common commitment to those who care for freedom.

In making these funds available the United States will be participating in an international effort which has captured the imagination and sympathy of people throughout the world

We have also had a special interest in the civilization of ancient Egypt from which many of our own cultural traditions have sprung

I recommend that we now join with other nations through UNESCO in preventing what would otherwise be an irreparable loss to science and the cultural history of Mankind.

I do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe Monday, May 1, 1961, as Law Day, U.S.A., with suitable ceremonies.

You have our warmest good wishes for every success.

I also designate the period beginning September 17 and ending September 23, 1961, as Constitution Week;

I also request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on the twenty-second day of May in tribute to the American Merchant Marine

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy,President of the United States of America, call upon the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Citizenship Day, September 17, 1961;

I do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our Merchant Marine on Monday, May 22, 1961, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable places

I find that the circumstances requiring the imposition of fees on peanut oil, flaxseed, and on linseed oil and combinations and mixtures in chief value of such oil, no longer exist.

I hereby determine that in the national interest the amount of the quotas for sugar and for liquid sugar for Cuba pursuant to the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, for the calendar year 1961 shall be zero.

It is my desire that you investigate fully alternative transportation resources in order to select the course of action which would best serve the Government's interest and most adequately and economically meet the Canal Zone's particular…

I find it to be in the national interest that the amount of the quotas for sugar and for liquid sugar for Cuba pursuant to the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, for the calendar year 1961 should be zero.

Oceanography is a natural area of opportunity for extensive international cooperation.

Our present maps of the oceans are comparable in accuracy and detail to maps of the land areas of the earth in the early part of the 18th century.

These are some of the reasons which compel us to embark upon a national effort in oceanography.

In the midst of the present economic downturn and widespread unemployment, I hope that diligent efforts will be made in every community in the nation to avoid eviction of families genuinely in need and seeking to the extent of their means…

I do hereby proclaim the month of April 1961 as Cancer Control Month

The controversy referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this order is hereby found to constitute an emergency affecting the national interest within the meaning of the provisions appearing under the heading 'Emergency Fund for the…

All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government are authorized and directed to cooperate with the commission in its work and to furnish the commission with such information and assistance, not inconsistent with law, as it…

The Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs is hereby abolished.

It's quite obvious that if the Communists were able to move in and dominate this country, it would endanger the security of all, and the peace of all, of Southeast Asia.

There has been, has been evidence of groups from Viet Minh or North Viet-Nam who have been involved.