God forgive them for they know not what they do.

In signing the Agreement, I pledged myself to ask the Congress to authorize the President to remove all United States duties on Canadian automobiles and parts for original equipment.

Under your able leadership, the Treasury Department has been a major force in bringing our economy out of recession into an economic upsurge.

Canada has acted.

As you leave to take a well earned rest, I want you to know that I fully intend to call upon you to serve your country again.

Although I understand your reasons for leaving government service, I accept your resignation, effective at the time you suggested, only with the greatest reluctance.

The Food For Peace program has made a significant contribution to the world attack on hunger and malnutrition--still the most grave health problem of the world.

The Food For Peace program is one of the most inspiring enterprises ever undertaken by any nation in all of history-and every American can be proud of it, without regard to partisanship or political persuasion.

Yours has been a strong voice for sense and sanity--as well as for innovation--in the nation's monetary affairs.

Increasingly the emphasis is on using our agricultural commodities to support projects that help eliminate the need for continued food aid.

Nor can we afford to shut out large numbers of our fellow citizens from the fulfillment of hope which is shared by the rest of us.

But I want you and your forces to deserve this protection.

Reimbursements to the Commodity Credit Corporation through 1964 by U.S. Government agencies utilizing these currencies totaled almost $1.1 billion.

Today about 40 percent of our government's economic development assistance overseas is in the form of agricultural commodities and local currencies received from their sale.

It is our turn.

It is based on mutual trust and will result in mutual benefit--benefit to producers, to labor, and to consumers on both sides of the border.

I recommend that the Congress take early action on this legislation so that this program will be in effect when the present Area Redevelopment Act expires on June 30, 1965.

Food For Peace is directly benefiting more people than ever before.