Lyndon Johnson

Now we in the Government are wall advanced in following up many of these recommendations.

To the extent not heretofore superseded, Executive Order No. 10970 of October 27, 1961, is hereby superseded.

Therefore, I request each of you to encourage each Government Committee Chairman in your department or agency to carry on whatever contact with his citizen counterpart helpfully enlarges the scope of our own thinking.

Executive Order No. 11230 of June 28, 1965, entitled 'Delegating Certain Functions of the President to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,' as amended, is hereby further amended by substituting for paragraph (9) of Section 1 thereof…

We in the United States set aside the year 1965 as International Cooperation Year (ICY) to be spent in search of new ways of cooperation among nations.

The authority vested in the President by Section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 166 (5 U.S.C. 836), to establish maximum rates of per diem allowances for civilian officers and employees of the Government to the extent that…

I look forward to a continuation of the close cooperation between our two countries established with the late President.

I am appointing a White House committee this summer to oversee the final analysis in the context of preparing the FY 1968 Budget and legislative program.

ON BEHALF of the U.S. Government and people I extend deepest condolences to you and the Nicaraguan people over the death of President Schick who so ably contributed to the progress of his country.

Executive Order No. 10621 of July 1, 1955, entitled 'Delegation of Certain Functions of the President to the Secretary of Defense,' is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end of Section 1 thereof:

As you assume the heavy new responsibilities placed on you today, I wish you every success.

Executive Order No. 11230 of June 28, 1965, entitled 'Delegating Certain Functions of the President to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget,' as amended, is hereby further amended by substituting for paragraph (9) of Section 1 thereof…

To encourage that search, I called the White House Conference on International Cooperation, which met in Washington November 28 to December 1.

The authority vested in the President by section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 166, as amended (5 U.S.C. 836), to establish maximum rates of per diem allowances for civilian officers and employees of the Government to the…

I am determined that our government in its normal course of business continue to take advantage of the best thinking among our citizens.

So now as this cable opens a new era of improved communications between our countries, we can look forward to even closer friendships and associations between Americans and Venezuelans.

No people in history have been more generous with their treasure and resources than have the American people since the end of World War II.

THANK YOU very much, Mr. President.

I offer my heartiest congratulations to you, Mr. President, and to all of your fine countrymen on this most significant occasion.

But I know that he also believes, as I do, in the words written many years ago by Sir Walter Scott: 'The races of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. From the time the mother binds the child's head till the moment some…

We have come here this afternoon to place a successful program in the hands and under the direction of a very successful man.

In all of these enterprises we share an abiding concern for the freedom and the dignity of man, and our number one objective in the world is peace for all mankind.

The underseas cable to Venezuela dramatizes, I think, the great community of interest between North and South America in general and certainly between the United States and your country in particular.

Moreover, it represents a very important step forward in improving global communications which have made rapid advances in the last few years.

And I think it is realistic to say that foreign aid has been an important force for good in this world in which we live.