There will be 15 White House Fellows and they will serve for 15 months.

I want to welcome you warmly to the White House this afternoon.

As you know so well, freedom is never a static doctrine.

Interest-bearing loans have replaced grants as the chief mechanism for assistance.

During fiscal 1963, about one-fourth of all technical assistance was carried out not by AID personnel, but by American colleges, universities, business, professional firms, and service organizations or contract with AID.

Freedom is an active, dynamic, rolling credo.

We know that if our goal is still distant, our course is true.

The purpose of the program is to give the Fellows first-hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal Government and to increase their sense of participation in our national affairs.

A hundred years from now when historians look back on the Johnson administration, I hope very much that they will be able to say: There, once again, was an era when the young men and the young women of America and their Government really…

We knew it was right and necessary to help these poorer countries to a better life if we were to preserve our own good life and expand the family of the free.

This report demonstrates the remarkable progress made in strengthening our foreign assistance programs and policies since 1961.

Our aid became increasingly selective and concentrated in fiscal 1963.

Fiscal 1963 saw the beginning of significant economies in the management of aid programs by the Agency for International Development.

Major assistance to Europe under the Marshall Plan had ended by the mid-fifties, but a few smaller supplemental programs continued during the years after.

In short, you are going to have to be the captains of a movement to lead people to love instead of hate.

We are here today to proclaim 1965 as International Cooperation Year in the United States of America.

You can't be a statesman unless you get elected.

I also call upon our national citizen organizations to undertake intensive educational programs to inform their memberships of recent progress in international cooperation and urge them to consider what further steps can be taken.