The Agency has succeeded in combining economy in administration with a safety program which has helped the commercial air carriers of the United States achieve the best safety record in the world and the best record for any five-year…

I shall count on you and the good people at the Federal Aviation Agency to continue to provide examples of public service at its best.

I have taken particular note of your cost reduction program under which you saved $47 million during the 1966 fiscal year.

You have clearly demonstrated that outstanding performance in a critical and complex program can be continually achieved while reducing costs.

We are doing everything we can to reach an agreement on such a treaty.

But it is a crucial question how they are to be transformed from a grand concept to a vital, practical force for change in the educational system.

We have not waited for the fighting to end before we have the beginnings of the works of peace.

I think we all read them and are affected by them.

We simply cannot allow the school children of this country to find their education frustrating, unrelated to life, or inadequate to their needs in our increasingly complex world.

They ought to be conceived as comparable in their way to the large-scale laboratories of the Defense or Atomic Energy establishments.

I am grateful to you for your efforts to implement this program inasmuch as these laboratories were a key element of the Administration's education proposals to the Congress last year.

We have much to be thankful for, generally speaking, much to be encouraged about.

This action at this time was required by the events of the time.

This process will be speeded by establishment of extensive experimental schools and pilot projects showing educational innovation in real situations that can be seen and understood by administrators, teachers, and school boards.

It is important, in this regard, that we continue to seek the advice of experts, both within and outside the Government, on the goals, priorities and accomplishments of these enterprises.

As Commander in Chief, you have reason to be proud of the magnificent professional leadership which our men in Vietnam are receiving from General William C. Westmoreland.

I consider this 'other war' as crucial to the future of South Vietnam and Southeast Asia as the military struggle.

I hope you will continue to press forward with the development of these laboratories to assist in improving our school systems.