John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I would hope that all groups would put national interest first and recognize that the prospects for tax reduction and economic growth must not be endangered by squabbles over who is going to get what.

Tax revision, may I say in conclusion, is not the only ingredient in a policy for growth.

The tax program we have submitted is, in fact, consistent with all legitimate ends.

You come at a most appropriate moment and I am very proud to welcome you here on behalf of my countrymen.

The Army Institute of Heraldry shall prepare for the approval of the President a design of the Medal in each of its degrees.

The Board shall screen such recommendations and, on the basis of such recommendations or upon its own motion, shall from time to time submit to the President nominations of individuals for award of the Medal, in appropriate degrees.

Members of the Board appointed under Section 3(a) of this Order shall serve without compensation.

The Medal of Freedom is hereby re-established as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

A chairman of the Board shall be designated by the President from time to time from among the membership of the Board appointed from the Executive Branch.

The two Presidents considered carefully the ways in which Venezuela and the United States could most effectively further the objectives of the Alliance for Progress.

The United States would review in advance with Venezuela such substantive changes in the oil import program as the United States may contemplate in the future.

In conclusion, the two Presidents expressed their gratification at the opportunity thus afforded them to confer together in person.

Venezuela has been an essential and consistent supplier of petroleum to the United States and to the free world in times of peace and in periods of emergency.

I hope that your visit here to the United States will remind the people of this country that they have a good deal of unfinished business in this hemisphere.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you and Madame Betancourt to Washington and especially here at the White House.

Now we have turned our attention, in a way, to Latin America, but we turn it somewhat late and we turn it with some of our resources exhausted.

So, Mr. President, you are a welcome guest.

Mr. President, we want to welcome you here and I want to assure you tonight that you are among friends.

So, Mr. President, we are, and everybody in this room are, great admirers of yours.

I take particular pleasure in welcoming you to this country.

We stand with Venezuela, we stand with you, in the fight for freedom during these great days of the sixties.

And you have been selected as target number one, not only for the dictators in the last 2 years, but also by the Communists.

Your visit, Mr. President, is a welcome reminder of the unfinished business before us in this decade.

I commend the report for your consideration in connection with the budget request and the need for new legislation to stimulate research in the field of water resources at the colleges and universities.

I fully subscribed to the view expressed in the covering memorandum by Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Chairman of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, that the study represents an important step in the development of a coordinated…