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We do not seek to impose our will on anyone.

From that day to this, I have been dedicated--as I shall be while there is breath in me--to that system's strength and its stability and its success.

These young men and women will go to the barrios of Santo Domingo and Santiago to work with and to work for the people of the Dominican Republic in attaining a new life and a new hope.

For more than 51 consecutive months, we have had the longest peacetime expansion America has ever known.

The deep divisions among us are diminishing.

The United States made its forces a part of that Inter-American Force.

Corporate profits--after taxes--have risen 87 percent.

The number of jobs has grown by 5.3 million.

It was here, at my father's side, that I was first exposed to the strength, the vitality, and the enduring value of our system of representative democracy.

There are very few deliberative bodies that have the reputation that you members of the Senate have--charity toward one another.

Weapons have themselves become a cause of fear and a cause of distrust among other nations.

I welcome you to the White House Rose Garden.

I know that governments cannot easily be persuaded to cease their ancient rivalries or to lay aside their weapons or their arms, but I also know that the nations of mankind that are huddled together on a crowded globe have a common…

One modern warhead today carries enough firepower to make the nuclear blast of 20 years ago seem a very pale flicker by comparison.

I have stressed that we must reorganize and modernize the Government's organization structure in order to focus responsibilities, increase efficiency, and meet present-day needs more effectively.

Our democracy depends in major part upon the Federal Government's adaptability, on its capacity for fast flexible response to changing needs imposed by changing circumstances.

The amendment to Executive Order 10358 ordered by section 1 of this order, shall be effective upon issuance of this order.