We are so grateful for your friendship, for your loyalty, for your cooperation in trying to solve the problems of this hemisphere and trying to be equal to the challenges of the 20th century.

And the results are already apparent and already gratifying.

In the works of space, as in the works of peace, this great Nation of ours stands always ready to join with any others--to join with all others--and we are ready as I speak now.

And there are many sources of strength that a President must call upon and must summon in trying periods, and I am happy to say that in this great land of ours I have never found those strengths wanting, and I have never found them…

The one thing I need from you more than anything else, aside from your leadership in your local communities, is to take your eyes and your ears, and your head and your heart, and your heels, and try to develop for me the most outstanding…

Obsolete equipment and installations must be eliminated.

Defense expenditures in the years ahead must continue to be guided by the relentless pursuit of efficiency and intelligence of economy.

This Order shall be effective as of July 27, 1965, and, together with the Council established by Section 1, shall terminate on January 1, 1966, or on such earlier date as may hereafter be prescribed.

We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat.

I have directed Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara to be available immediately to the Congress to review with these committees, the appropriate congressional committees, what we plan to do in these areas.

You carry with you the gratitude of an advancing nation, and you take with you the appreciation and the friendship of your President.

The results of what you have done are plainly evident in the Congress, and will leave even larger imprints in the objective scrutiny of history.

In all these adventures you were both leader and tireless worker.

Outmoded weapons must be replaced by new ones.

I want you to know from me directly of the very great personal confidence which I place in Ambassador Goldberg.

That remains our policy.

There Is hereby established a new 'National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems.'

No Cabinet officer has worked longer, harder, with a more zestful spirit, than you.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

We shall continue to maintain our military forces without regard to arbitrary budget ceilings.

So long as I am permitted to be your President, we will continue to spend whatever is necessary to spend for the security of our people.

We are ready now, as we have always been, to move from the battlefield to the conference table.

Tony Celebrezze's first duty was always service to his neighbors.

The Administrator, in reviewing plans under Section 3 of this Order, shall transmit his comments to the Secretary within thirty days, or such other period as may be agreed upon, after receipt of such plans.

I am prepared today to announce to you Secretary Celebrezze's successor.