We know that if our goal is still distant, our course is true.

The purpose of the program is to give the Fellows first-hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal Government and to increase their sense of participation in our national affairs.

Fiscal 1963 saw the beginning of significant economies in the management of aid programs by the Agency for International Development.

This report demonstrates the remarkable progress made in strengthening our foreign assistance programs and policies since 1961.

A hundred years from now when historians look back on the Johnson administration, I hope very much that they will be able to say: There, once again, was an era when the young men and the young women of America and their Government really…

Freedom is an active, dynamic, rolling credo.

I want to welcome you warmly to the White House this afternoon.

Major assistance to Europe under the Marshall Plan had ended by the mid-fifties, but a few smaller supplemental programs continued during the years after.

To increase the impact of the Alliance for Progress, our aid to Latin America was sharply stepped up in fiscal 1963.

A genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society.

I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings, on Columbus Day in honor of the great explorer.

I hope that I will be seeing some of you again when you come here as White House Fellows.

We increased efforts to encourage American investment in the less-developed countries.

As you know so well, freedom is never a static doctrine.

I am very proud to welcome this most distinguished assembly of most distinguished Americans.

For the United States, cooperation with other nations and other peoples is always uppermost in our minds and is the first aim of our policies.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson,President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the year 1965 to be International Cooperation Year in the United States of America

I also call upon our national citizen organizations to undertake intensive educational programs to inform their memberships of recent progress in international cooperation and urge them to consider what further steps can be taken.