I bid all citizens to join in actively promoting the fire prevention and control efforts of their respective community fire departments.

Yours was an exacting assignment, requiring vigor, intelligence, understanding of farm problems and a sympathy for the under-privileged of the world.

We're glad to welcome not only them, but the Aeronautic Association, which sponsors this distinguished and celebrated award.

So we are very proud to have them here, not only for what they have done in space, but also because they represent the kind of Americans whom we are most appreciative of, and the kind of Americans whom we want this country to be identified…

I hereby designate the week beginning October 7, 1962, as Fire Prevention Week.

I feel sure you will share my gratification that a way has been found to make productive use of this heat resource and I hope that you and the Congress will give the proposed arrangements your full endorsement and support.

I invite the people of the United States of America, to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities, and I urge them to give renewed devotion to the just aspirations of all people for national independence and human…

I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning July 15, 1962, as Captive Nations Week.

And I hope that the people of this country and all those who look to this country for their independence know how indebted they must be to those of you who serve--the officers and men--and it's a great satisfaction for me to be able to…

I direct the Secretary of the Army, acting under the direction of the Secretary of Defense, to insure that appropriate commemorative ceremonies of national interest are conducted in the Military District of Washington on July 12, 1962, and…

We propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come; and we are determined to maintain the spirit which you have shown tonight.

No matter how complicated war has now become, we need a Navy which can take ships close in to shore; we need an Air force that can protect those ships; we need small boats that can take men on a beach; and we need men who will go ashore.

I urge the people of the United States to commemorate the significance of the Medal of Honor during this centennial period;

It proves that the new breed is as good as the old breed, and I can think of no higher compliment.

All of us are proud of the Marine Corps.

I also direct the Secretary of the Army, acting under the direction of the Secretary of Defense, to lend the greatest possible assistance to the various State Governors, other State and municipal officials, and civic and patriotic…

For the privilege of speaking before you Senator McCarthy owes me at least 3 votes now in the next 2 months

The quality of office space for Government operations shall be appropriate for the efficient and economical performance of governmental activities, while affording employees safe, healthful, and convenient conditions of employment.

Maximum use shall be made of existing Government-owned permanent buildings which are adequate or economically adaptable to the space needs of executive agencies.

Space planning and assignments shall take into account the objective of consolidating agencies and constituent parts thereof in common or adjacent space for the purpose of improving management and administration.

In the event that a head of an agency deems space assigned or reassigned to his agency to be unsuitable, and the agency head and the Administrator are unable to resolve the matter, the former, as promptly as may be practicable and in no…

The Administrator shall prepare and issue standards and criteria for the use of such office space and shall periodically undertake surveys of space requirements and space utilization in the executive agencies and initiate actions and…

Our principal avenue, as you suggest, must be an increase in the surplus of our exports over imports.

We cannot supply more of these goods directly from the United States, if these are only available at higher costs, without adding to budget expenditures here at home.

We know we cannot solve this problem alone—and other free nations know that they, too, cannot afford any weakness in the dollar.