None of us must ever forget that all of us are servants of the people.

It is good international policy and sound domestic policy.

During your tenure, the Treasury accomplished with unexampled skill the difficult task of financing our debt without inflation.

Food For Peace is an important tool for development.

Food For Peace is, above all, a program which expresses the great and generous heart of the American people--and is a worthy expression of the compassion always so much a part of America's character.

President Johnson expressed his admiration for President Yameogo's vigorous efforts to improve the economic and social well-being of the Voltan people and to secure cooperation and peace in Africa.

I mention only my home State, Mr. President, but I could mention many others.

We are particularly pleased that you come today as the first state visitor to Washington since our inauguration earlier this year.

We must spare no effort in learning how to desalt these waters economically.

I hope, sir, when you return, that you will take with you this message.

But we are enemies always of human privation and prejudice--and we shall not rest until justice prevails throughout the world against these adversaries.

We invite and welcome the attention of all nations--young and old--to the agenda of the Congress of the United States.

In America today, this generation of Americans is determined to fulfill that ideal by all that we do in the world and by all that we do here at home.

I hereby call upon the American people to remember and to reflect upon that spirit of national unity.

There is a strong and a swelling interest in your continent and in your country.

Ours is much more than just a material commitment, for we keep a moral commitment, too.

I urge those who can do so to attend the centennial ceremonies to be held at the Bennett Place, near the City of Durham, North Carolina, on April 25, 1965.

Five years ago the people of Upper Volta won their independence.