John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mr. President, it is a source of great satisfaction to all of us to welcome you to the United States and to welcome your wife, the Foreign Minister, members of your government.

This is a difficult and dangerous world in which we live.

So, Mr. President, we are very glad to welcome you and your distinguished wife, the members of your government, here to the White House.

The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce, jointly and individually, shall institute and maintain appropriate measures for the effective coordination of each of the following: (1) the rural-development program of the…

Nothing in this order shall be deemed to authorize any executive department or any other executive agency established by law to carry out any program which is inconsistent with law.

Executive Order No. 10847 of October 12, 1959, is hereby revoked.

In conducting its activities the Committee shall place particular emphasis on effective public and private cooperation and leadership for rural development at the State and local levels.

Each member of the Committee may designate an officer of his agency to act for him as a member of the Committee with respect to any matter considered by the Committee.

The Committee shall provide leadership and uniform policy guidance to the several Federal departments and agencies responsible for rural-development program functions and related activities.

I had said something about his interest in the Gaelic language at lunch.

I think it is a source of some satisfaction that Ireland, which, after all, is a small country, should be playing such a significant role on the world stage.

So, we are proud to have you here, Prime Minister, as a very active participant in that fight of living a thousand years.

It is in the public interest that this dispute be promptly resolved.

The things for which Mrs. Roosevelt stood are clearly identifiable and they represent the best of our national effort and purpose.

I think it can also be judged on its opportunities for women.

I think this is an extremely vital matter with which we are dealing.

I want to assure you, and I think that the Members of Congress who are here and others who participated in the work of this group will try to do something about it on the administrative level, Executive, and in the Congress and, I think…

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this home where Mrs. Roosevelt lived longer than any other First Lady and take part in this ceremony commemorating the issuance of this stamp.

In the time I have been here, she visited the White House on five or six occasions and on each of those occasions her visit was connected with some phase of her horizon-wide interest in life and in people.

A civilization could be judged on how it treated its elderly people.

So this stamp, as the Postmaster General said, will go into millions of homes, people who have very intimate recollection of Mrs. Roosevelt during the most difficult flays of this country's experience in this century, and I think will…

This represents a legacy of hers in a very real sense.

In addition, Ambassador Stevenson's presence here reminds us of the work which the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation is doing, the fundraising campaign which is involved, which deserves the support of all of our fellow citizens, because in that…

Each visit was connected with a different cause and each cause that was important to our country and to the world.

We would certainly be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy that wheat from us today and then sell it as flour to the Communists.