TEXT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S FOREIGN AID MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

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• Publication Date: March 20, 1964
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/23: CIA-RDP73-00475R000300530003-4
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NEW YORK TIMES
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March 20, 1964
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ext of President Johnson's
Foreign Aid Message to Congress
. ' The best way fin the United ' recommend $335- -Million for . -Cents out of every tax dollar.
1VASHINGTON, March 19 States to stimulate this ; supporting assistance, ? $225 If there is any alternative:
'(AP)?Following is the text of growth and to broaden this million for technical coopera- , insurance against war, it :
? President Johnson's foreign aid partnership in freedom is to , Pon, $134 million for con- ' might be found in ' an in.
make our own example an in- :tributions to international or. crease in the defense budget.
Message to Ccmgrcss: ,. . . centive to our friends and ..ganizations, $150 million for But that would require not
. ' The? most important in- allies. the President's contingency. only many times more than
:- gredient in the development. ? We need the assurance and ? fund, and $73 million for ad. ;$3.4 billion, for a: military,
of a ' nation is neither the ? stability and progress In a ; ministrative and miscellane- :budget which already takes
reccenmend that the congress '
ress ?
:./nore than 50 cents out of
several-fold increase in out
every tax dollar, but also a '
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alga assistance. It is the will
dangers and anxieties.
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world restless with many i OtIS expenses.
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; - For military assistance,
' amonnt nor the nature of for-
!' and commitment of the Gov- - Prudent and Responsible
;provide a continuing authori-own military manpower.
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? , ernment and people directly Programs ? ' zation, subject to an annual , The foreign assistance re-; ..
:review of each year's pro- : quested will provide.
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involved. In this program we do not
To those nations which do 'seek to cover the whole world.
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!, commit themselves to Aid on a world-wide scale is
: iprogress under, freedom, help no part of our purpose.
from us and from others can u
Wdentseekd instead, through
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, posals by the authorizing ; ?The crucialassistance we
, committee in both houses. :have promised the people of
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For fiscal 1965, I recom- Latin America who are co- r ...
mend no additional authoriza-
mitted to programs of eco-'
tions for the Alliance for inomic and social progress; -
.nue economic do-
provide the margin of differ--1
i grams, ta help carefully se_ ,Progress or for development ? ?Con'
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i ence between ? failures and lected countries whose sur- lending assistance in Asia or velopment. in India, Pakistan
and Turkey under the major ?
;success. ' ,.vival in freedom is essential Africa. Existing authorization<
International aid-consortia to
?and whose collapse' 'would for these programs are':
i , which we are a party;
: This is the heart of ' the
. ? bring new opportunities for adequate.
?The United States share , ? - .
' ? matter. :Communist expansion. The appropriations recom- 1
the
voluntary contributions .to
. .
There are no easy victories mended for fiscal 1965 total '
e United Nations technical ?
i; The proposals contained in The
this message express our in this campaign. But there $1 billion for military assist-
cm- ! cooperation programs and to :
ance and $2.4 billion for
self-interest at the same time can be sudden disasters. We 'such special international' '
cannot ask for a reprieve 'c assistance .
programs as the work of the:'
freedom
responsibility while nom. .. .
In fiscal 1964, the initial
United Nations Children's:
''that they proclaim our i
' :from
'national ideals. ? ,freedom is in danger. The vi-
I request was $4,9 billion, later
Fund, and the development of
;tal interests of the United reduced to $4.5 billion.
This fiscal year, the request the Indus Basin;
' We will be laying up a '
.
harvest of woe for us and our Funds to meet our corn-.. ? ?
:States require us to stay in of $3.4 billion is $1.1 billion 7
rintments to the freedom of
children if we shrink from
:the battle. We dare not less than list year's request,
the people of South Vietnam, .
the task of grappling in the
,desert. although about the same as
Korea, and for the other obli-i, .
world community with pover- , ?
_ . I Economic and military as- was available last year, tak-
ty and ignorance.
These are the grim re- :sistance, used at the right
Ing into consideration the un- P
expended balance from the. e in Asia and Aft'caf
ations we have undertakaem
They flourish wherever w nj, .
Africa. '
cruiting? sergeants of Com-
time and in the right way,
?can provide indispensable Year before. .
Second: The i funds 1 "
munism. ? help to our foreign policy in Moreover, more than 80 per requesting will be concen-
e
trated where they will pro- i
enabling the United States to cent of aid f 'rids will be
duce the best results and :
falter. If we default on our
.influence events instead of spent in the U,iited Statest. speed - the transition from '
'obligations, Communism will
;merely reacting to them. By ; The impact of the program on. United States assistance to ?
?:expand its ambitions. 'committing a small part of 1 our balance of payments will, self-support wherever possible. '
? That is the stem equation
our resources before crises'. be less than ever before. 1 Two-thirds of the proposed'
which dominates our age, and actually occur, we reduce the
escape in logic or 'in honot. crises. . :.21111"it
from Which there can be no nations
ons assistance along willth e g o. p to. ;
danger and frequency of those , Insurance to Avoid Corn- ii
of the Sino-Soviet
Our foresig-ht becomes a milling American
- No Waste, No Retreat i
shield against misfortune. !bloc, from Greece and Turkey :
i The recommendations con- Men to War :through Thailand and Viet-:
? - e S.: lc pyramid ' ;name to the Republic of China:
? It is a*gainst our national. tained in this program for , These requests reflect a de?
? and Korea. These funds are a :
termination to continue to
'Inefficiency or extravagance to. move the aid program in.' Improve the aid program both : key to the maintenance of ..
in concept and ?administra- 'over 3.5 million men under'
' tion. The over-all re. ? arms ( raised and supported in .
: quest represents a great deal . large measure by the coun- ?,i
' of ? money?but . it is an i tries receiving the assistance. ,
; amount which we should; in The need for supporting
; all prudence, provide to serva ',assistance?funds used pri- '
; essential United States inter- I manly in countries facing de...!
'ests and commitments ?fense -or security emergen- '
!throughout the World. l'cies?will continue to be ye-
More than one million ';'dliced. Fourteen countries !
'American men in ' uniform. Which received supporting as-.;
are now stationed outside the ';'sistance three years ago will ,
United States. As insurance ! receive none in fiscal year
to 'avoid involving them and '1.961 i . , - ?
'the nation in a major conflict, :. 'Four-fifths of the present %
' ' growing.; .., ., .2. ? .i...:... recommendecl,,Specifteally, j. owe
i ? ? .propose to spend through i.'
.. request win go to four cowl-.
- Pr.ogrArliA. .. ... .. . . tries. 'Korea, Vietnam,
less than ..44, .. -Laos ? .
? iAnd Jordan. 03 , ., . :? . . ' ..t
. ? interest to tolerate waste or fiscal year 1965 are designed
!An any of these programs. Bui that direction.
? it is equally repugnant to our, They reflect views and ex-
national interest to retreat perience of the Congress, of
from our obligations and corn- the: Executive Branch and of
mitments while freedom re- informed private citizens.
, mains under siege.
We recognize that the Unit. 'Five Fundamental Con-
ed States cannot 'and should ; .cepts for a' Successful
not sustain the burden .of ;
these programs alone. ' Program
Other nations are needed! First: the request for funds
-in this enterprise of mutual 'niust be realistic.
help. Encouraging signs ex-, For economic assistance,
1st that the process of shar-.new authorizations of $917
ing the, burden is steadily, million for fiscal 1965 arc
Continual!
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