To support our own effort, I ask the Congress to authorize and appropriate for FY 1966 an additional $89 million for the Agency for International Development for expanded programs of economic and social development in Southeast Asia.
Special Message to the Congress on the Need for Additional Foreign Aid Funds for Southeast Asia.
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We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.
Thirty-four years ago, I came here as the sun was setting late one evening and I was married to a lovely lady in this city in St. Mark's Church, in downtown San Antonio.
In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.
Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.
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