President Eisenhower very wisely appointed a Commission on Money and Credit.

But we believe it is only half the answer to what small business needs in this country.

The bill that the Congress has sent me increases by $125 million the amount of loans that the Small Business Administration may have on its books at any one time.

We think it can, and we think it should be able to sell its loans to private investors.

Those shares would be guaranteed by the Small Business Administration.

They would be available for lending to other dynamic small firms that today are hungry for capital that is fight and the desire to produce and to expand.

I hope that we will stress imagination and creativeness, initiative, new ideas, how we can do something quicker, how we can do it better, why we ought to do something we are not doing, why we ought to discard the status quo, and proceed to…

I want to especially commend you, thank you, and say to you that I don't believe there is a higher calling than Government service.

Yet for all the monetary awards that you have sacrificed, I believe that you have gained something more precious.

Your achievements have singled you out as being men and women of excellence, and excellence is not easy to come by, either in or out of the Government.

The foregoing designation is not intended to abridge in any respect any privileges, exemptions, or immunities.

I hereby designate the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium as an international organization.

Among the many blessings which Americans can count is a corps of Federal civil servants that is unequaled anywhere in the world.

It has provided the American businessman with increased opportunities to export more United States products and services.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 22, 1966, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate Federal, State, and local officials to cooperate in the…

Much remains to be done if we are to achieve a balanced international economy where all nations, developed and developing, can share the fruits of freer trade.

Expansion of world trade is the principal objective of the liberal foreign trade policies our Nation has followed for more than thirty years.

It has advanced the peaceful progress of our Nation and the well-being of all Americans by strengthening the growth of private enterprise and employment.