I think I speak for every American when I tell you how very proud and how impressed, how grateful we are for what you and all the many members of your team have accomplished on the Mariner 4 mission.

But statistics are not our first concern.

I must confess that I am a little bit relieved that your photographs didn't show more signs of life out there.

I remain an optimist always about man and about man's future, and I have never been more optimistic than now.

The American woman has a challenging responsibility to meet in this country, whether she puts her knowledge to use in her home community or in Washington, matters very little.

And there are many sources of strength that a President must call upon and must summon in trying periods, and I am happy to say that in this great land of ours I have never found those strengths wanting, and I have never found them…

Our first concern must be, and is, people.

There Is hereby established a new 'National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems.'

So long as I am permitted to be your President, we will continue to spend whatever is necessary to spend for the security of our people.

The results of what you have done are plainly evident in the Congress, and will leave even larger imprints in the objective scrutiny of history.

No Cabinet officer has worked longer, harder, with a more zestful spirit, than you.

I have directed Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara to be available immediately to the Congress to review with these committees, the appropriate congressional committees, what we plan to do in these areas.

I want you to know from me directly of the very great personal confidence which I place in Ambassador Goldberg.

Obsolete equipment and installations must be eliminated.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Outmoded weapons must be replaced by new ones.

In all these adventures you were both leader and tireless worker.

We shall continue to maintain our military forces without regard to arbitrary budget ceilings.