I have great confidence in General Harkins.

And third, it symbolizes the effort which we are giving and must be giving to organizing an effective communication system here in the United States of America.

As you know, the American Ambassador--the United States Embassy has made six protests to the Soviet Government in the last 48 hours.

But it is a fact that the imports of woolens and worsteds have gone up from about 15 to 22 or 23 percent.

It is a pleasure for me to join the citizens of Delaware and Maryland in opening this new highway.

I know who they are going to blame.

No industry has a greater impact upon the Nation and no industry has a greater opportunity to affect our economic progress.

It is a great pleasure for Mrs. Kennedy and myself to welcome the Black Watch to the White House.

The Major just said that the motto of the Black Watch is 'Nobody wounds us with impunity.'

We are proud to have them here also because they are a Scottish Regiment, and that green and misty country has sent hundreds and thousands of Scottish men and women to the United States and they have been among our finest citizens.

The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

I think that is a very good motto for some of the rest of us.

The concurrence of the Board of Commissioners in those recommendations should assure that the entire District Highway Program can now move forward.

The Policy Advisory Committee is an example of the possibilities for cooperative action among Federal and District agencies in resolving difficult problems.

The recommendations are likewise acceptable to me, and will be included in my budget recommendations to the Congress in January.

I am delighted to welcome you to the United States.

But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.

The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.

Nearly 2 years ago my wife and I visited Bogota, Colombia, where a vast new Alliance for Progress housing project was just getting under way.

I had wondered what I would do when I retired from the Presidency, whenever that time might come, but Dr. Sockman was the first man to suggest work as challenging as the Presidency in becoming chairman of the Protestant Council's annual…

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.

The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion. Contrary to the assertions of Mr. Khrushchev, it can accept differences of ideology, politics, and economics.

And to weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy, it will hamper our security.

I hope this kind of intimate association, cooperation for the benefit of all of our people, may be extended to other fields.

The rich must help the poor. The industrialized nations must help the developing nations.