Therefore, I have asked the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to organize an education program in these techniques at several universities.

Our programs must be both effective and economical.

The American people deserve, and demand, that the Government apply to its operations the most efficient management techniques available.

In my Baltimore declaration of April of last year, I said to the people of the world how much we would welcome taking some of the funds that we are now spending in bombs and bullets and putting in efforts to rid that area of disease and…

It is a lesson which we should have learned long ago for it was really one of our Founding Fathers, John Jay, who warned us: 'It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever…

I believe that many of the world's nations have since learned the final futility of war.

The bill that we have come here to approve this morning authorizes appropriations of more than $4 billion, 800 million for the support of the Defense Establishment of the United States of America.

The overwhelming vote on this measure also testifies that we may have learned something from recent history.

Another way is to train the most able and promising people now on your staff in modern techniques of program analysis and management.

It is my greatest wish to someday stand here and sign another bill, one that is designed to bring progress and fulfillment to a Southeast Asia which is at peace with itself and also at peace with the rest of the world.

How joyous it would be if these great resources could he put, instead, to the service of peace.

I want you to nominate some of your most able people for this intensive training in modern, analytic methods.

One way you can meet this need is to recruit as many of the best, analytically trained people as you can find.

So to those who ask what our present struggle in Vietnam really means, let me say: Our purpose is to demonstrate to the remaining advocates of violence that there is more human profit to be had from peace than there is from war.

Your careful control over every dollar of Government spending will not only avoid direct waste of our resources, but will also help prevent the indirect and inequitable waste that results from the deterioration of the dollar's value.

It was imperative to hold 1966 expenditures to the absolute minimum required for carrying out essential responsibilities.

Our purpose is to demonstrate to the remaining advocates of violence that there is more human profit to be had from peace than there is from war.

The necessity to guard against inflation takes on added urgency.

Let me remind you that it was just 25 years ago that the Congress extended the Selective Service Act by only one vote.

Thank each of you for coming this morning to this little ceremony.

I also believe that it will do something else.

The need for people in each department well trained in modern management methods is great.

How sad it is that such great sums must be spent for the bombs and the planes and the gunpowders of war.

My January budget forecasts that 215,000 handicapped individuals will be rehabilitated during fiscal year 1967, a 25% increase over the current fiscal year.

I am very proud of the achievements of the Federal-State vocational rehabilitation program in rehabilitating disabled citizens.