I expect Dr. Brimmer to be a right-money man.

Attaining an unemployment rate of 3.7% is a triumph for our Nation's economy.

Our balance of payments requires our continuing attention and concern.

We cannot rest content: when employers seek skilled and experienced workers while thousands cannot find work because they lack proper training and education.

Your objective should be to maximize receipts and to minimize expenditures abroad consistent with the achievement of U.S. objectives.

The future can be and ought to be a time of opportunity.

Mr. Staats holds a unique and a very vital position in our government.

He has been Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget under four different Presidents.

We must eliminate the discrimination which wastes our manpower resources.

So, General Staats, this morning in the presence of your wonderful family, and particularly your distinguished father-in-law, my old friend Bob Rich of Pennsylvania-whom I am so happy could be here with us-you launch a new career.

I have instructed the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to examine your reports carefully and to inform me promptly of the progress which is being made by each Federal agency in assisting the Nation to achieve equilibrium in its balance…

And we who know him, know that Elmer Staats has always been a builder, a believer-not a doubter.

We are determined to do whatever is necessary to keep the economy expanding and avoid inflationary bottlenecks.

I urge that you use this occasion to re-examine all of your overseas programs with the utmost care.

Our goal is not just a job for every worker. Our goal is to place every worker in a job where he utilizes his full productive potential, for his own and for society's benefit.

Whenever there is a collision with fate, when history stops for a moment of crisis--it is the doubter who runs from the test of courage--and it is the builder who is firm in the face of fear.

The minimum wage for American workers has been an essential part of national policy for almost thirty years.

He believes in our system of government.