General Westmoreland, I want you to take back with you my personal message to all of our men in Vietnam.

We hope, as we begin this new week, that we can have a renewed determination and a united America supporting the forces of free men in Vietnam.

As Commander in Chief, I have a very strong desire, as well as a need, to review directly with our field commander the military operations in that most crucial conflict.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen: We are delighted to have you here to visit with General and Mrs. Westmoreland before they return to their service area.

They know why they are there.

My talks with General Westmoreland have confirmed the conviction that: -- the United States has never had a more efficient and courageous fighting force in the field than the men who are serving us at this hour in Vietnam;

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 1035 of Title 10 of the United States Code, as amended by the Act of August 14, 1966, I hereby prescribe that amounts deposited by members of the uniformed services under that Section…

That message is this: You are our best.

And we are doing it without spending a cent of appropriated taxpayers' money.

So we have come here this morning to do more than salute the past.

We have come here to try to ensure the future.

Additional study is required before final judgment can be reached on the design of a national flood insurance program.

Today I am transmitting a report from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, entitled 'Insurance and Other Programs for Financial Assistance to Flood Victims.'

If you give people cheap electricity, they'll pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

This morning we are helping to guarantee the future of nearly 6 million of our fellow citizens.

The need for financial protection against flood losses to private property is widely recognized.

The measure that I am about to sign will raise by $1 billion the limit on the amount of revenue bonds which TVA may have outstanding.

We estimate that the power requirements of the Tennessee Valley region are going to double in the next 10 years alone.

It has been our policy to have Cabinet meetings where specific members have been asked to report on our conservation policy, our resource policy, Vietnam, or the Alliance for Progress, for example.

I will meet with Secretary Weaver and a group from his department in another room, so I will now turn this meeting over to Mr. Ackley.

To provide a forum for consideration of mutual problems concerning Federal programs and activities affecting the development of urban areas and for the exchange of current information needed to achieve coordination of, and to avoid…

As I say, they ranged from economic policy, the situation in agriculture, balance of payments, the labor situation, the cost of living, exports, and other general matters.

To identify urban development problems of particular States, metropolitan areas, or communities which require interagency or intergovernmental coordination.

So long as aggression continues in South Vietnam, we will turn it back.

To promote cooperation among Federal departments and agencies in achieving consistent policies, practices, and procedures for administration of their programs affecting urban areas.