We know all too well that racketeers in this field are making easy victims of many of our finest young people.

I HAVE ASKED you to meet with me this morning because I am very deeply concerned about our budgetary outlook for the next year.

So I want all of you to remember that the work you do is work that is being watched here in the White House.

Maximum efficiency of Government has been a consuming interest throughout my career and particularly since I have been President.

Such efficiency is no better illustrated than in the attached Annual Cost Reduction Report of the Department of Defense and the pamphlet, 'The Challenge of Change', which describes the Department's efforts to meet its responsibilities to…

I bid all citizens to support and promote the fire prevention and control efforts of their respective community fire departments.

The Older Americans Act will make it possible for us to move faster in these places where we have already started.

I should be happy to have any plans of this nature that you may have brought to my personal attention.

I would like you to take the inclosed report and brochure home with you and read it carefully.

We shall miss him, but from his life and work we can take courage for the future.

The grants under this law will be modest in dollars, but will be far-reaching in results.

I understand that of all the persons that have reached age 65 since the dawn of civilization, 25 percent of them are alive today.

So, this is our pledge to the memory of this great man who is really, as all of you here know, a true citizen of the world--a pledge to devote our energies and our talents and our resources and our wills to the cause for which he died.

I urge State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the American National Red Cross, and business, labor, and farm organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies to observe…

As a mark of respect to the memory of Adlai E. Stevenson, 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 at half-staff…

It is too late to do a lot for a good many older Americans.

You may find it a source of ideas which can be put to use in your own Department or Agency.

We believe, as they do, that it is urgent that a solution be found, and found promptly.