I urge the strong and warmhearted and generous support of this program by the American people.

Food in this world is no longer easy to find.

An India free from want and deprivation, will, as Mahatma Gandhi himself once predicted, 'be a mighty force for the good of mankind.'

Can we let it be said that man, who can travel into space and explore the stars, cannot feed his own?

I request prompt Congressional endorsement of this action.

If any of you are interested in knowing, we have reached absolutely no decision on wage and price control, taxes, or cutting expenditures.

Let us be willing to experiment.

Our people will welcome any judgments the Congress can provide.

India faces an unprecedented drought.

Dave Lilienthal and others who are very familiar with the problems there have said to me that you don't really help agricultural production a lot in a minister's office.

It is not like a tax bill or expiration of the draft or something of that kind.

We have the authority to do it without asking them, but we know that the size of the contribution is such that they will be in on the landing, so it seems to me more desirable that they also be in on the takeoff.

We thought more of bringing in people by the hundreds and giving them brief, expert training that they could communicate back to their neighbors.

I thought it was very good, very fruitful, very productive, very satisfactory from our standpoint.

At the invitation of President Johnson, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, has been on an official visit to the United States of America.

Congress willing, the United States will continue to participate generously in the international effort to alleviate India's immediate food deficit problem.

We look to this cooperative endeavor to develop new teaching techniques in farm and factory, to advance science and to increase research.

Following the Tashkent Declaration there had already been considerable progress toward reestablishing the conditions of peace in the subcontinent.