INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES

Statement by the President Upon Requesting an Amendment to the 1968 Budget To Finance Studies and Plans for the Center. May 10, 1967

In my Message to Congress in February on Health and Education, I announced my intention to seek funds to establish, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., an International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences.

Today I am submitting to Congress an amendment to the 1968 budget, requesting $500,000 to finance architectural studies and plans for the Center's facilities. The facility will cost an estimated $4 to $5 million.

The basic objective of the Center will be to advnace medical research and knowledge worldwide. When fully operative, the Center will enable 30 distinguished scholars at a time to spend periods of 1 to 2 years of work at the Institutes concentrating on important areas of progress in health.

In addition to a continuing program of international conferences and seminars, two special fellowship programs would operate through the Center: (1) professorships supporting the international exchange of outstanding teachers and health scientists; (2) grants supporting the training of promising foreign scientists in U.S. laboratories, health agencies, and universities.

By the 1970's, the full program of the Center, including scholarships, stipends, and travel awards, will cost an estimated $12 million annually-including $1.2 million now spent each year for exchange programs of the Institutes.

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INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THE HEALTH

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The President's Letter to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Amendment to 1968 Budget To Finance Plans for the Center. May 10, 1967

Sir:

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of the Congress an amendment to the request for appropriations transmitted in the budget for the fiscal year 1968 in the amount of $500,000 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

The details of this proposal, the necessity therefor, and the reasons for its submission at this time are set forth in the attached letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, with whose comments and observations thereon I concur.

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

The President's Message to the Congress Transmitting Fourth Annual Report. May 31, 1967

To the Congress of the United States:

I am pleased to transmit the Fourth Annual Report on Special International Exhibitions conducted during fiscal year 1966 under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.

The primary purpose of the program-in which the Nation's economic, social and cultural achievements are exhibited in international fairs and expositions-is to build bridges of understanding between the United States and other countries of the world. Each exhibit is designed to show how our accomplishments relate to the capabilities and aspirations of the different countries. Because the exhibitions feature the products of American industries, they also contribute to mutually profitable trade relationships.

Since the program began in 1954, more than 100 million peopleprimarily in Eastern Europe and the developing countries-have witnessed 176 exhibits designed to help them understand, appreciate and benefit from American progress and experience.

During fiscal year 1966, the United States participated in a broad range of international events:

-Trade Fair Exhibitions in Algeria, Ethiopia, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Tunisia and Yugoslavia.-These exhibitions dramatized our progress in mechanical equipment for farm and industry, educational techniques, electronics and space.

"Expo 67"-During the_year, plans were laid for our participation in the World's Fair which opened in Montreal, Canada, in April 1967. "Creative America" was chosen as the theme of this country's exhibit, which pictures American achievements in the arts and space technology.

-Labor Exhibits at Trade Fairs in Ethiopia, Hungary, Iraq, Poland and Yugoslavia. The purpose of these exhibits was to project the true image of the American worker and the role he plays in the affairs of this Nation.

-Special-Purpose "East West" Exhibits in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia.-More than 2 million persons attended these exhibits, which featured the machinery of American industry, American architecture and the graphic arts. As in past years, the program's effectiveness was the result not only of Government efforts, but also of the contribution of materials, time and talent by hundreds of private firms.

All Americans are indebted to them for their efforts to help carry America's message to the world. LYNDON B. JOHNSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 31, 1967.

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

The President's Remarks at the Swearing In of Vicente T. Ximenes as Commissioner. June 9, 1967

Mr. Ximenes and his family, Senators Anderson and Montoya, Members of the Congress, Members of the Cabinet, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:

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Today, our effort in the field of education is three times what it was 3 years ago. The budget this year has a little over $12 billion for education. Three years ago it had a little over $4 billion. Three times the effort in education than we had only 3 years ago.

Twelve billion dollars for education. That is twice as much money as Herbert Hoover had for the entire Federal Budget when I came to Washington.

In health—we must have sound bodies, if we are to have our minds take that education. We were spending a little over $4 billion for health 3 years ago. The budget this year is over $12 billion. Three times as much for the human body-everybody's body-not just the rich man's body, or the poor man's body, the brown man's body, the white man's body, the black man's body. Three times as much for health as we were spending 3 years ago.

The President's Remarks at the Graduation Ceremony in the Rose Garden. June 13, 1967

Capitol Page School graduates, Members of the Congress, ladies and gentlemen:

I want to say to the school graduates that I am very happy to congratulate you today on your graduation and to have this chance to personally welcome you here to the White House.

I suspect that some day, some other President may be greeting you as Members of Congress or as high officials of Government.

You have had a unique educational experience: unique in your country-and, as far as I can learn, unique in all the world.

You have been given a chance to see Government without glamorto learn that ideals alone don't make programs; that dreams do not automatically become reality.

You have learned the political realities that go to making up our democratic system.

President Theodore Roosevelt best described those realities once when he said:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. . . . The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who spends himself in a worthy cause. His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

That knowledge gives you a head start in life. It will be useful to you, whether your career is in public service or in private life.

I hope that most of you will consider Government as a careereither as elected officials, like your very able alumnus Senator Church, or in other fields of public service.

For the world that you enter very much needs your help today. For our Nation is called upon not just to maintain the blessings we now enjoy, but to multiply those blessings; to improve the world for all people and to improve it for generations yet to come.

Doing that enormous job will always be difficult; sometimes frustrating-but always exciting and most of the time rewarding. I think you are specially qualified for that high endeavor.

By watching the Congress at work, by helping the Congress at work-you have learned a lesson that a great leader of Congress for half a century, Speaker Rayburn, used to teach: "Ability is no good without energy."

And Mr. Rayburn, who had an old-fashioned faith in integrity. used to say this, too: "No one can destroy the confidence other men have in you-except you."

I congratulate you on arriving at this day in life-in earning this graduation. I wish you well. I have complete faith that the confidence that your parents, your teachers, your associates in the Congress, and all of us have in you will be well placed. It is good to have you here.

PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS

The President's Remarks Welcoming the Scholars at the White House. June 13, 1967

Secretary Gardner, parents, friends, fellow intellectuals:

Welcome to the "generational gap."

Since I know that I am talking to some of America's brightest young people, I have no fear of asking any one of you where you stand in your class.

I run no risk of getting the answer that I heard from a young man who said, "Mr. President, I graduated in the upper five-eights of my class."

I am very proud of your accomplishments, but I hope you will remember what Albert Einstein once said: "Education is what remains when one forgets everything one has learned in school."

These days, if one chooses to believe all that is written about our young people in America, the prospect of having 121 teenagers as guests in this House can scare some people. They read about the alienated young radicals, and the rootless and disillusioned young people with long hair and short skirts.

Well, that doesn't scare me. I have just lived through several years with teenage girls in this House and it hasn't affected me one bit. I have kept my "cool." I haven't "bugged out." I am still in "fat city."

I would like to apologize to you for keeping Mr. Thurgood Marshall from your meeting this morning. I don't know if you have had an opportunity to see the afternoon papers, but when Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was supposed to be with you-he was with me.

Actually, in my office, I was informing him that I wanted him to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. He has accepted that appointment, and the Senate willing-he will become an Associate Justice to succeed Justice Clark.

Mr. Marshall is here with us today. Will you stand, please, Mr. Marshall?

One of the President's most important duties is attracting able and talented public servants to Washington.

So I am greatly pleased to have lured 121 potential public servants here this afternoon-even if your stay, you think, is brief.

I congratulate you.

I salute your teachers.

I pay tribute to your parents, who deserve a great share of your honor.

In the United States we have always prided ourselves for our leadership in free education. In every new community, the schoolhouse went up with the church as the first symbol of public obligation.

Yet, for all we have done, much more remains undone.

We have not learned to unlock the full promise of every American citizen. The tragedy of unused talent still plagues us, still affects millions of young people, still troubles our whole society.

For every Albert Einstein-how many immigrants worked out their lives in cotton mills, trapped by poverty?

For every Thurgood Marshall-how many talented Negro Americans never escaped the prison of the sharecropper?

For every Harry Truman-how many promising young men vanished at 16 into the stores, the factories, and the mines?

Our obligation is to build an educational system which will discover and develop these lost Americans.

I am proud to say that our Federal educational effort is three times as much this year as it was three years ago. That is progress. We are spending this year over $12 billion for education in this country. Three years ago we were spending $4 billion.

So someone, somewhere thinks education is important and is doing something about it.

We have no great guarantee that knowledge brings goodness or wisdom. Knowledge must be bound to a spirit of service. "Though I. understand all mysteries, and all knowledge . . . and have not charity, I am nothing."

So, I would commend to you, beyond a life of scholarship, a life of service. More specifically, a life of public service.

I have said this so many times that it is trite and particularly members of my Cabinet don't like to hear it. When I was a yoing man my ambition was to be a preacher, a teacher, or a politician-all threebecause they would give me an opportunity to serve others and because I could have some sense of achievement, of doing things for human beings that you never get out of a paycheck.

So I want to commend to each of you some very serious thought-to ask yourselves, "What can you do for your country and, more important, what can you do for your fellow human beings in the world in the allotted time that you have here?"

It is popular today to talk of "scholars in politics." More and more leaders of thought are becoming leaders of action in this country.