Today, above all, is a time for all Americans to rededicate themselves to the spirit that animated the Minutemen of Concord.

I HAVE a special pleasure in welcoming to Washington the delegates to the fourth meeting of the Inter-American Cultural Council.

One of the strongest links between this Government and its citizenry has been the United States Savings Bond program.

We must all do our share--in every way we can--to support our men in Vietnam.

We must not, and will not, at this juncture, permit our strength to be sapped by inflation.

Bob Weaver now has his charge.

We have made progress toward the establishment of an Asian Development Bank, and accelerated plans for development of the critical Mekong River Basin.

Now today, I am asking Mr. Shriver to give full time to the war on poverty.

There is much in the less-developed world that causes us deep concern today.

Foreign aid has become a smaller burden on our resources.

Foreign assistance has become a smaller factor in our balance of payments.

Private participation in AID programs is at an all-time high.

I want you to explore all the techniques available to modernize our postal service and make certain that they are being used to provide the American people with the best postal system in the world at the lowest possible cost to the…

I therefore intend to seek the necessary funds from the Congress to restore the postal services that were curtailed in 1964.

I approve your recommendations to improve postal service by increasing post office window hours and by restoring six-day parcel post delivery service.

I have said in the past, and I repeat now, that I want you to provide this country with the finest mail service it has ever known, while managing the Post Office Department efficiently and prudently.

I am also confident that the Congress will view with satisfaction the spirit of international cooperation that has increasingly come to characterize the operation of this Agreement.

I believe that during 1965 the dual aims of the Agreement--adequate supplies of coffee to consumers and markets for coffee to producers at equitable prices--have been met.