It is clear that we must move forward on all approaches that will contribute to achieving our goal.

The actions recently taken to further safeguard the interests of American farm workers are also encouraging.

I am pleased to extend my personal thanks to you and hope you will also convey my gratitude to those who assisted you.

You will, I know, continue your efforts to improve the operation of the program in this respect.

It seems to me that your year's effort has demonstrated two things: first, the feasibility of this approach and secondly, the need to pursue our objective vigorously and without letup.

I'm confident with your support, which you have demonstrated on many battlefields and many different parts of the world, that with your support we can meet the challenges that lie ahead.

I am heartened by the improvements made in implementing this law.

As you know, I participated at ceremonies at which Plans for Progress were executed and became aware of the keen interest and enthusiasm of these company presidents in taking every proper action to insure that their companies provide fair…

In this endeavor we must not fail.

We arm, as Winston Churchill said a decade ago, to parley, to make it possible for us through diplomatic means to maintain the peace of the world, to maintain our security and those who are associated with us.

The purpose, of course, of all this concentrated effort must be to maintain the peace.