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UN Day should have special significance for Americans.

I am happy that I can count on your outstanding talents and ability for this important job.

Nothing in this Order shall be construed as subjecting any Federal agency, or any function vested by law in, or assigned pursuant to law to, any Federal agency, to the authority of the Committee or as abrogating or restricting any such…

This year the United Nations is twenty-one years old, and Americans should join other peoples of the world in welcoming it to majority.

By 1970, our State governments, Governor Hughes, must grow by more than 600,000 to keep pace with the times.

The General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October twenty-fourth, the date of the coming into force of the United Nations Charter in 1945, should be dedicated each year to making known the purposes, principles, and…

I reviewed with them some of my views on Vietnam from the day I took over the Presidency: on education, health, agriculture, the economy of South Vietnam, my Baltimore speech, the Honolulu Conference, our desire to get the Government of…

Few men have thrown out as many lifelines as Billy Graham.

We not only have military problems here, as everyone knows, but we have political problems and economic problems.

A man's character is molded in his youth.

Earlier this afternoon he reported to me privately in some detail about the events in his area of the world and his evaluation of the situation there.

I asked him to join me in the Cabinet Room and make available to my other counselors here his impressions and judgments and conclusions, as well as a general review.

We had a discussion of the political and economic situation, the issues as he sees them--a general report from Ambassador Lodge.

I want you to know that I'll never be too busy to pay my respects to a great American.

Happy birthday, Mr. President, and God bless you.

I am proud to honor this request and do hereby extend to the Honorable Harry S Truman this expression of our profound and lasting gratitude and appreciation for his long years of devoted service to his country.