Planning, building, and maintaining the system requires constant and detailed cooperation between Federal, State and local governments, and private enterprise.

The true measure of our work is in its impact upon our peoples.

The aim of the Alliance is to build new societies.

You had no particular occasion to become intimately familiar with the work of the Central Intelligence Agency, but you were willing to serve your country again.

We must continue to plan our highway system so that it will contribute to the rational use of urban space as well as to pleasant and convenient transportation through the countryside

I urge Federal, State, and local government officials, as well as highway industry organizations, and other organizations having a public-spirited interest in our national highways, to hold appropriate ceremonies during that week in…

American ingenuity and determination are constantly being applied to improve and expand this system

You have excelled as a Navy officer in combat.

And you asked only that you might leave when a permanent director had been selected.

Above all, you brought your truly extraordinary capacity for management, for looking to the future, for planning the further creative development of an intricate organization.

We are in the midst of a major effort to beautify our highways and roadsides

It is essential that Americans understand and appreciate the importance of highway transportation to their social and economic progress, and to the defense of our Nation

Modern vehicles travel at greater speeds over longer distances than ever before; we must make certain that they are equal to the rigorous demands placed upon them by modern high-speed travel

For it is the lot of those in our intelligence agencies that they should work in silence--sometimes fail in silence, but more often succeed in silence.

I hereby designate the Attorney General of the United States, and such other officers and employees of the Executive Branch of the Government as he may from time to time specify, to be the 'local authorities' and 'competent officers' on…

Then, when you had gone to a well-earned retirement--you had taken up another congenial occupation--I called you back to Washington, once again asking you to undertake for your country what may have been the most formidable task of your…

The best intelligence is essential to the best policy.

Your career, Admiral Raborn, has been long and it has been outstanding.