This week we passed a law removing the useless and burdensome gold cover.

Hard choices are going to have to be made in the next few days.

I am glad that Henry Ford, and the mayor of Cleveland, and George Meany can sit here at this table side by side, because they all represent something special to this country-as you do.

We seek nothing else.

We shall and we are going to win.

The Communists have made it clear that up to now, thus far, they are unwilling to negotiate or to work out a settlement except on the battlefield.

If their position changes--as we fervently hope it will--then we in the United States and our allies are prepared to immediately meet them anywhere, any time, in a spirit of flexibility and understanding and generosity.

We and our allies seek only a just and an honorable peace.

If that is what they choose, then we shall win a settlement on the battlefield.

I wish I could find more, for the women of America remain one of the largest untapped resources for the great tasks of this Nation.

There are four things which can never be retrieved--the spoken word, the sped arrow, times past, and the neglected opportunity.

But I know that you will find that our friendship for you and for your people flourishes in every season.

For all of these things, for being where you are today, for doing what you are doing today to serve our country, to serve our people, to serve our common employer--the people of the United States--I have asked you to come here to the…

He said, 'I don't really know, Mr. President, but I can promise you one thing: I'm not going to run for President.'

Mr. Prime Minister, it is a very special pleasure this morning to welcome you and Mrs. Egal to our Nation's Capital.

But even today, women still have a cruel discrimination in jobs.

I can assure you that I have never enjoyed a working relationship with anyone, anywhere, any time, more than the one that I had with Sandy Trowbridge.

The people of America, Mr. Prime Minister, are delighted to have this opportunity to return your friendship.

We here in the United States are inspired by your courage.

In the firm hands of a local executive determined to improve the face of his city, it is a powerful tool of reform.

So today we have come here to the Fish Room to give the Export-Import Bank some of the financial horsepower that it very desperately needs in order to carry out that important job.

Unless we act now--and unless we act soon--we run a very grave and very unnecessary risk.

Like a girl getting married, the Export-Import Bank is legally changing its name this morning.

The strength of our dollar, the soundness of the free world monetary system, really depend on the strength of that position.

Reorganization Plan 2, which I transmitted to the Congress on February 26, 1968, will carry into effect those recommendations requiring action by the Congress.