There is no way to make up for lost time to poor families without adequate housing, to the unemployed who need training to get a job, to those who need the social services which can be provided by a neighborhood center.

The Joint Administrative Task Force which you established has met the goal.

We are all now aware that one of the major problems confronting Governors and Mayors is the amount of red tape involved in getting grant-in-aid projects processed by Federal Agencies.

President Johnson reiterated his desire for a continued high level of trade and stressed his opposition to protectionist restrictions.

I do not want a single unnecessary day of delay in delivering vital services under programs authorized and directed by the Congress.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, in honor of this great humanitarian enterprise, do hereby proclaim October 31, 1967, and October 31 in each subsequent year, as National UNICEF Day.

At a time when the growing shortage of food has become a grim problem for much of the world, Mexican agriculture has produced a new strain of wheat which will help to revolutionize agriculture in all the developing countries.

We hope to repay, in some small part, the hospitality which Mrs. Johnson and I enjoyed last year in Mexico City.

Another kind of proof lies in the great public works that we are building together along our common frontier--works like the Amistad Dam, which you and I visited together only last December.

We hope that there may be conveyed to you during your visit to our country the equal warmth and good feeling of the people of the United States toward Mexico.

The Mexico of today is also a nation of growing influence in the world.

You have taken leadership in the great work of keeping Latin America free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

In my welcoming statement earlier today, I mentioned, Mr. President, what your great country is doing to help overcome food deficits in other parts of the world.

If ever proof was needed that this was indeed Mexico's policy toward her neighbors, we received it less than a month ago in the floods along the Rio Grande.

I want you to feel at home in my house, as I do in yours.

Our success as friends and neighbors rests on respect for each other's rights.

Today we welcome two close neighbors and good friends--President and Senora Diaz Ordaz of Mexico.

In this short time, Mexico has achieved political stability and personal freedom.

Mr. President, the United States and Mexico are showing the world what good neighbors really can accomplish.

We have had two decades of unprecedented growth in world trade which contributed greatly to the economic progress of this country and of our trading partners.

In 7 short years, Mr. President, you have united your people.

History will instead mark the men who, like Thomas Jefferson and President Ahidjo, led their people to the truth--that there is no freedom without unity, and no unity without sacrifice.

He can do something about the old tyrannies of hunger, disease, and ignorance that enslave two-thirds of his race.

It is they we welcome as partners and friends in a common and exciting purpose.

He can change the conditions that breed war.