In this largest organization of its kind, the executive branch of the Government of the United States, the emphasis is no longer on the faceless mass, but the emphasis is on individual excellence.

To support our own effort, I ask the Congress to authorize and appropriate for FY 1966 an additional $89 million for the Agency for International Development for expanded programs of economic and social development in Southeast Asia.

This money will serve many purposes.

You must give the hours of your life, and the fruits of your learning, and the courage of your spirit, and the substance of your home to those in need in every continent of the earth.

I know of no more urgent task ahead.

I ask the Congress, as part of our continuing affirmation of America's faith in the cause of man, to respond promptly and fully to this request.

I genuinely and sincerely believe his record must be ranked as one of the most, if not the most outstanding ever made

Our role will be vital, but we hope that all other industrialized nations, including the Soviet Union, will participate.

This is an occasion to make any President very proud and very glad

I hope that I will have other opportunities to express myself on the subject of Kermit Gordon

The American people want their government to be not only strong but compassionate.

This is what I believe the American people expect of their President.

We intend to lead vigorously in that struggle.

Let no citizen that is secure in his own liberty ever forget how precious it is and how brave we must be if we are to keep it.

Education's greatest gift is a spacious and a skeptical mind--a curious mind.

To do all of these things you must prepare yourself.

Our policy is not to spread conflict but to heal conflict.

We shall be just, and we shall be prudent, and we shall also be prompt and brave, for we are determined here in America that peace shall not perish, and the cause of freedom shall not be failed.