That message is this: You are our best.

My talks with General Westmoreland have confirmed the conviction that: -- the United States has never had a more efficient and courageous fighting force in the field than the men who are serving us at this hour in Vietnam;

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen: We are delighted to have you here to visit with General and Mrs. Westmoreland before they return to their service area.

We have come here to try to ensure the future.

So we have come here this morning to do more than salute the past.

Today I am transmitting a report from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, entitled 'Insurance and Other Programs for Financial Assistance to Flood Victims.'

Additional study is required before final judgment can be reached on the design of a national flood insurance program.

The need for financial protection against flood losses to private property is widely recognized.

This morning we are helping to guarantee the future of nearly 6 million of our fellow citizens.

If you give people cheap electricity, they'll pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

And we are doing it without spending a cent of appropriated taxpayers' money.

The measure that I am about to sign will raise by $1 billion the limit on the amount of revenue bonds which TVA may have outstanding.

We estimate that the power requirements of the Tennessee Valley region are going to double in the next 10 years alone.

Peace--real peace--is meaningful only, as your Association's history states, if it is achieved 'without compromising the principles of America.'

But full heads and empty hearts breed disunity rather than unity.

I will meet with Secretary Weaver and a group from his department in another room, so I will now turn this meeting over to Mr. Ackley.

They know that peace is not merely the absence of shooting.

So long as aggression continues in South Vietnam, we will turn it back.