Discover Our Collections


6 results

  • Education 9. Office of Economic Opportunity Funds 10. Foreign Aid THE PRESIDENT: On poverty, we want all we can get. CONGRESSMAN ALBERT: The committee is going down the line on it. Mrs. Green made a good speech on it today. (The President then continued
  • week. Senator Mansfield said that the measure would be taken up before the foreign aid issue. V. Civil Rights Committee Extension Senator Mansfield said he wants to get the extension out without changes. The President agreed to a suggestion
  • before I sent the budget to the Congress. I have about "imaged out." If Mills has an answer then let's see it. I understand that you are even considering a 30% cut in foreign aid. Congressman Albert: I do know that it looks as though poverty will be cut
  • . The President: We have 18 authorizations, including some which aren't so controversial. They include AEC, NASA, Foreign Aid, and 3 Defense authorizations. We need to get our committees meeting on these authorizations now. People are mad because they don't know
  • of the problems. The President then read a statement for use by the Speaker and by the Majority Leader. Congressman Albert pointed out that the House is going to cut Foreign aid and the Poverty Program very severely, particularly in view of the fact
  • . But the feeling that Europe is not carrying its fair share of the world's burdens is strong. Neither Europe nor America should take each other for granted. We must work every day to nurture every strand of partnership, either in monetary affairs, aid to developing