God forgive them for they know not what they do.

During your tenure, the Treasury accomplished with unexampled skill the difficult task of financing our debt without inflation.

Canada has acted.

Increasingly the emphasis is on using our agricultural commodities to support projects that help eliminate the need for continued food aid.

Nor can we afford to shut out large numbers of our fellow citizens from the fulfillment of hope which is shared by the rest of us.

None of us must ever forget that all of us are servants of the people.

Yours has been a strong voice for sense and sanity--as well as for innovation--in the nation's monetary affairs.

It is good international policy and sound domestic policy.

Under your able leadership, the Treasury Department has been a major force in bringing our economy out of recession into an economic upsurge.

The Food For Peace program is one of the most inspiring enterprises ever undertaken by any nation in all of history-and every American can be proud of it, without regard to partisanship or political persuasion.

As you leave to take a well earned rest, I want you to know that I fully intend to call upon you to serve your country again.

Reimbursements to the Commodity Credit Corporation through 1964 by U.S. Government agencies utilizing these currencies totaled almost $1.1 billion.

I recommend that the Congress take early action on this legislation so that this program will be in effect when the present Area Redevelopment Act expires on June 30, 1965.

But I want you and your forces to deserve this protection.

In signing the Agreement, I pledged myself to ask the Congress to authorize the President to remove all United States duties on Canadian automobiles and parts for original equipment.

Food For Peace is, above all, a program which expresses the great and generous heart of the American people--and is a worthy expression of the compassion always so much a part of America's character.

Today about 40 percent of our government's economic development assistance overseas is in the form of agricultural commodities and local currencies received from their sale.

Food For Peace is directly benefiting more people than ever before.