At this very minute, somewhere in America, our Red Cross is helping with a personal tragedy--easing a community crisis--tackling and solving the problems and emergencies of life.

To help open the doors of opportunity to every American woman, I am today announcing the establishment of a new group on careers for Women.

The bill does not foreclose any specific course of action, but will make it possible to move ahead toward accomplishing our basic objective.

I want to congratulate each of you and all of you, particularly you six women who are the forerunners of what I think is a new era.

This is particularly a Federal concern.

I hope that the Congress will give early and favorable consideration to this legislation.

I want to apologize to you for being late on account of conditions that I could not control.

We should all remember the nurses, doctors, and countless volunteers who stand watch around the clock in hospitals, tents, shelters--wherever there is human need or suffering--here and in Vietnam this very minute.

Our economy is crying out for their services.

We owe it the goodness of our hearts and the labors of our hands.

The need for better facilities for visitors has long been a matter of concern.

The time has come for the American woman to take her rightful place in American society.

We should all remember Hurricane Betsy--and how the Red Cross rescued thousands from the brink of that disaster.

An Advisory Committee would be established to assist the Secretary in designing and administering the program.

I have met this morning with Mr. Eugene Black, the great American who has done so much in company with Asian leaders to make the Asian Development Bank a reality.

I think it is very clear to the Members of Congress that the President has authority to take the action he has taken, first as Commander in Chief, and second, under the treaty that the Congress has ratified 82 to 1.

We want to defeat aggression.

I am today naming a council of distinguished Americans to prepare for the conference on 'To Fulfill These Rights' which will be held in Washington June 1 and 2.