In the forward movement of the communications satellite program, all agencies of the Government and the committees of the Congress have assisted in carrying out the objectives and purposes of the Act.

We are reaffirming President Roosevelt's pledge of 22 years ago.

I am going to sign this bill, even though it provides hundreds of millions of dollars more than I thought it advisable to recommend or to ask for this year.

I am transmitting to the Congress a report on this national program, which is successfully advancing communications satellite technology to the benefit of the people of the United States and the world.

A new communications era has begun.

I am going to sign this measure this morning notwithstanding the fact that it goes further than I was willing to ask for this year.

This historic space bridge will be enlarged.

These guidelines are the result of long study, based on experience over the past six years since the current guidelines were issued.

My Cabinet officers brought to my home in Texas, where I was recuperating from an operation, budget requests that they had gone over very carefully that amounted to $130 billion.

We must seek in every feasible way to reduce the cost of carrying out governmental programs.

They are great soldiers.

We will support these men who are defending our freedom to debate.

I am convinced that these brave Americans who serve us on many fronts today, particularly in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, and others, are the very best men that our country has ever produced.

Paraphrasing what Secretary Rusk said the other day in response to a question from Congress, he said, 'Well, Senator, could it be that they could perhaps be wrong?' And it just could be that the President was wrong when he made his…

Each of you is requested to designate an assistant secretary or other official of comparable rank to review new proposals for the agency to provide its own supplies or services before they are included in the agency's budget.

I do not wish to impose rigid or burdensome reporting requirements on each agency with respect to the new guidelines.

In that way, I was hopeful that we would not ask for more than we could get, or bite off more than we could chew in educational costs.

I believe that the National Council on the Humanities has a most crucial role to play in American life today, not only in enriching scholarship, but in enriching life for all people.