We have in the past months doubled our urban renewal program to help you in your fights against slum and blight.

In a short few decades we've moved from a rural to an urban way of life, and before long we shall be a nation with a vastly extended population, living in great urban areas in housing that does not now exist, served by community facilities…

We now have before the Congress a major proposal on urban mass transportation.

So I think that in these relations between Mexico and the United States, which should be constantly worked on and not merely be permitted to be assumed, I think this sets a very good precedent for our relations with countries around the…

You can be very sure and confident that the federal Government will also continue to work with you in achieving this great and worthwhile objective.

All practicable action should be taken to implement these recommendations.

In addition, all of us--and I want to stress this particularly--regard courage as perhaps the outstanding of the human virtues and particularly in all these cases as I have read them, they required immediate reaction, not a deliberate one.

But I want to say that there is a tradition in that regard, with Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In my opinion, the ultimate in self-discipline is a creative work.

I speak in behalf of all of us to all of you and tell you how proud we are to have you here.

I want to express a very warm welcome to all of you, and particularly to our distinguished guests, Mr. and Madame Malraux.