I ask that you report to me periodically on your accomplishments so that we can join in encouraging public discussion of your plans and in taking steps that others may benefit from your experience.

As you know, they are led there by a brilliant and a resourceful commander, Gen. William C. Westmoreland.

The right to enjoy plants and animals in their natural habitats--and the duty not to eliminate them from the face of this earth.

I want to publicly thank Ambassador Averell Harriman for being available and making the contribution he did in connection with this mission.

We have no choice but to advance with courage tempered by caution.

But we cannot restore--once it is lost--the majesty of a forest whose trees soared upward 2,000 years ago.

I have recommended a budget and fiscal policy which, in the best judgment of my advisers and myself, will allow us to sustain solid expansion without overheating the economy.

The people must have this right—the South Vietnamese people—and no one else.

We are delighted you are back.

Our concerns must not be confined to the utilitarian requirements of transportation alone.

We are at the same time polluters and sufferers from pollution.

The right to clean air--and the duty not to befoul it.

The right of easy access to places of beauty and tranquility where every family can find recreation and refreshment-and the duty to preserve such places clean and unspoiled.

So let me assure you and my fellow Americans tonight that I will do everything in my power to defend both.

As a mark of respect to the memory of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, it is hereby ordered, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Proclamation 3044 of March 1, 1954, that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown…

I hope the men and women of each Department and Agency will, in their own way, pursue this vital purpose during Brotherhood Week--and throughout the year.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5234 of Title 10 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows.

Starting with the family and community, we must together extend to every American those rights of freedom and opportunity that are the wellspring of America's strength.