It is a record that you and your family can be very proud of.

Asia is now the crucial arena of striving for independence and order, and for life itself.

It is not just saving money. It is creating more resources, resources which can be used to build a better and a more decent, more developed, more just, and more rational world.

Further progress can be made if every individual assumes the responsibility for removing the hazards and reforming the habits which cause fires.

This is not only $400 million more than your goal, than had been expected, but it occurred at the very same time that you were building up a military force of some 350,000 in Southeast Asia, 10,000 miles away from here, and providing them…

We want to end the fighting.

That is the kind of creative government our people demand.

The record that you have achieved in your part of the Government's cost reduction program, in my judgment, is without equal.

If I would leave no other thought with you this morning than this one, I would say that every person within the sound of my voice, and every employee of the Defense Department, in uniform and out, civilian or military, can take great pride…

I am delighted to accept once again your invitation to come across the river today to attend this ceremony.

It is a peace that can only be sustained through the durable bonds of peace.

So if enduring peace can ever come to Asia, all mankind will benefit.

You are men and women who have saved your Nation certain costs.

For peace is not really written merely in the words of treaties, but peace is the day-by-day work of builders.

I urge them to give renewed devotion to the just aspirations of all people for national independence and human liberty

I do hereby designate the week beginning July 17, 1966, as Captive Nations Week.

I shall count on you and the good people at the Federal Aviation Agency to continue to provide examples of public service at its best.

I have noted with satisfaction the excellent work which you and your associates at the Federal Aviation Agency have been doing in reducing costs and manpower while absorbing additional workload and improving service to the public.

I am pleased to observe that the House Appropriations Committee, after thoroughly reviewing your program and budget for the 1967 fiscal year, singled out the Federal Aviation Agency for special commendation for the efficiency and economies…

I have taken particular note of your cost reduction program under which you saved $47 million during the 1966 fiscal year.

Your success in establishing regional and area centers of field supervision while simultaneously reducing employment in field offices has demonstrated that decentralization can mean better public service and more productive use of field…

The Agency has succeeded in combining economy in administration with a safety program which has helped the commercial air carriers of the United States achieve the best safety record in the world and the best record for any five-year…

You have clearly demonstrated that outstanding performance in a critical and complex program can be continually achieved while reducing costs.

We simply cannot allow the school children of this country to find their education frustrating, unrelated to life, or inadequate to their needs in our increasingly complex world.

We have not waited for the fighting to end before we have the beginnings of the works of peace.