John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This work, now progressing with such momentum, must not be allowed to falter.

Compared with the funds required for other programs for the national good, those requested by this Commission for this program are modest indeed.

Let us make it a city of which the Nation may be proud-an example and a showplace for the rest of the world.

The additional general fund financing in fiscal year 1964, for which legislative authority will be needed, will provide the District with the funds necessary to enable it to qualify for and participate in these programs.

Because Washington is the Nation's capital, the National Government has, and must continue to have, a special responsibility and a special relationship to the District of Columbia.

I again urge that the Congress restore to District residents the basic right to local self-government.

The Federal budget has a double importance: It is an agenda of our purposes and priorities in the form of a plan for the conduct and financing of the public business.

Adoption of the tax program I am proposing will strengthen our Nation's economic vitality.

As I say, I am sure that if we meet in 6 months or 9 months or a year, with your help we can really make a contribution in the best voluntary sense between the Government and the people working for a very important national objective.

Our tax program will promote fuller use of our resources and more rapid economic growth.

To that end--as I pledged last year--the 1964 budget incorporates a major program of tax reduction and reform, designed to help speed the economy toward full employment and a higher rate of growth with price stability.

We cannot permit, through the sixties, an important segment of our population to be denied an opportunity to find decent jobs, to be the first to be unemployed and the last to be rehired, and to be at the bottom of the ladder, and regard…

If you can see if your companies can do the same thing, assign people who have the responsibility, and keep good records, let us see whether in a period of 6 months or a year we can really improve our national posture in this regard.

Adoption of the tax program I am proposing will strengthen our Nation's economic vitality, and by so doing, will provide the basis for sharply increased budget revenues in future years.

They agreed on the necessity to further prepare for the forthcoming Geneva Conference and expressed the hope that this conference would achieve positive results.

Our economy has been falling short of its productive potential for more than 5 years because total demand for goods and services by consumers and business firms has been insufficient to keep the economy operating at capacity.

Expenditures for trust funds will also increase, chiefly reflecting continued expansions in the self-financed social security and highway programs.

This issue must be faced squarely.

I just want to express appreciation to all of you for taking part in this effort.

I hope that the signing of these Plans for Progress is really only the beginning.

Our present choice is not between a tax cut and a balanced budget.

I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.

Italy is an ancient and also a most modern country and its modern renaissance is almost as extraordinary as its earlier one.

It contains many valuable suggestions for improving administrative procedure

So we are delighted to welcome you here, Prime Minister, to a country which has had its oldest ties with you stretching back nearly 500 years, which has had a good deal to admire in Italy's long past but which is particularly struck by the…