The small, privately owned concern has played a fundamental role in the development of the American way of life.

I do hereby designate the week beginning May 22, 1966, as Small Business Week

The small businesses of America are the foundation of our cherished system of free, competitive enterprise.

The South Vietnamese are trying to build a nation.

It will be given to all of you, and it will be in the transcript, too.

I do think it is very important that the President of this country have the right, and I think he does have the duty and the obligation when the Nation is involved in the serious difficulties that we have in the world, to make it clear to…

I didn't think the speech was susceptible to that interpretation.

We recognize it. We are aware of it. We give a good deal of attention to it.

I don't want to be charged with barring you from asking anything you want to.

This is the time for bridges to be built, not for antagonisms to be aroused.

We are watching the situation in Vietnam very closely.

We are not in Vietnam to dictate what form of government they should have.

So some of us seem to be a little bit frustrated.

At any given moment over the past two centuries, observers of American life were convinced that the United States was about to come apart at the seams.

The true purchasing power of today's factory worker is just 300 percent of its 1932 level.

It is not my intention to defer or eliminate the essential; for example, travel for law enforcement, or for necessary supervision of field establishments, are costs which--if the activities are to be carried on efficiently-must be borne.

The income of our workers is up 33 percent in the last 5 years alone.

It should not be too great a hardship to stretch out the filling of vacancies and, in some cases, even to forgo replacing a portion of those who leave their positions in your agency.