Quite obviously progress has been made on the--substantial progress has been made by the Communists towards that objective in recent weeks.

I am hopeful that it will be possible for the United States to make progress towards lessening tension in our relations with the Soviet Union.

I want to make it clear to the American people and to all of the world that all we want in Laos is peace, not war.

Executive Order No. 10802 of January 23, 1959, by which the said Committee was established, is hereby revoked.

Well, Laos is not yet a Communist country and it's my hope that it will not be.

I find it difficult to know why anyone would oppose seeing somebody, by 1963, paid $1.25 in interstate commerce.

Well, I agree that both the Chinese Communists and the Russians have poured large sums of money into subsidizing cheap book publications which have poured into many sections of the world and is a matter of concern.

We are breaking new ground.

We want to keep our economy free--we want labor to be free--we want management to be free--and we want to keep the Federal Government in its proper role.

We are going into a critical phase of our national life.

I do not want the White House to have to come in at the last minute.

Our competitive position abroad is affected by the wage-price structure here at home.

I also ask my fellow Americans, as an expression of support for their armed forces and as a symbol of their unity in devotion to the preservation of our country, to display prominently the flag of the United States on Armed Forces Day.

The President's Committee on Fund-Raising Within the Federal Service, established by Executive Order No. 10728 of September 6, 1957, is hereby abolished, and that order is hereby revoked.

This order shall become effective forty-five days after its date.

I think that there is a fair balance today.

If we pursue policies of stability and growth inspiring world confidence, foreign governments should respond to higher interest rates on time deposits thereby aiding our gold outflow problem.

Mr. Dean goes back to Geneva with the hope, the administration's hope, that it will be possible for the United States, the British, and the Russians to come to an agreement on nuclear--for a nuclear test ban, which would provide adequate…

I am hopeful that it will not.

It is my understanding that the Joint Committee on the Economic Report may call back Mr. Martin and Mr. Helley to discuss this further.

I think that all this matter should be examined carefully by the Congress.

We are determined to support the government and the people of Laos in resisting this attempt.

I will consider what usefully could be done to advance progress.

Therefore I have called on all the people of the hemisphere to join in a new Alliance for Progress--Alianza para [el] Progreso--a vast cooperative effort, unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose, to satisfy the basic needs of the…

To achieve this goal political freedom must accompany material progress. Our Alliance for Progress is an alliance of free governments-and it must work to eliminate tyranny from a hemisphere in which it has no rightful place.