To increase the impact of the Alliance for Progress, our aid to Latin America was sharply stepped up in fiscal 1963.
Under these policies U.S. business and industry exported $855 million in AID-financed goods and equipment to Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
Fiscal 1963 saw the beginning of significant economies in the management of aid programs by the Agency for International Development.
We increased efforts to encourage American investment in the less-developed countries.
This report demonstrates the remarkable progress made in strengthening our foreign assistance programs and policies since 1961.
Our aid became increasingly selective and concentrated in fiscal 1963.
We know that if our goal is still distant, our course is true.
I invite the people of this Nation to observe that day in churches, schools, and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies in honor ...
The 1961 Act also called for greater use of America's vast private resources in the battle against world poverty.
I want to welcome you warmly to the White House this afternoon.
Freedom is an active, dynamic, rolling credo.