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 are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.
Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.
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.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
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