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.'

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 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.

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

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.

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.

We are attempting, in cooperation with the State and the city, as Reverend Potter described, to carry out a pilot program here in the city of New York, but it is only a beginning, and there are hundreds of thousands without resources, and…

Contrary to repeated warnings, prophecies, and expressions of hope, in the 17 years since the Marshall plan began, I know of no single officeholder who was ever defeated because he supported this program, and the burden is less today than…