REMARKS, VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY, NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1966

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120031-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 19, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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REMARKS
VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY
NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SEPTEMBER 19, 1966
I have heard and read the words of many CIA staff
officers. I welcome this opportunity to express to them, and
to you all, my own thanks for your distinguished
professional.'` marked today by presentation of
certificates and public service awards.
President Johnson is- a generous President. He has
included his Vice President among those who counsel him,
and he has encouraged departments and agencies to keep
Vice President informed. If Hubert Humphrey is not
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You are doing your job, and I want you to know that it is
just as important as you suspect it is!
Each morning your secret daily reports, including
reports from all the U. S. intelligence community, are studied
by me as my first order of business. I use your running
account of world events as one of the most important streams
of information available to me. Throughout the day and week
your longer reports and studies are summarized and brought
to my attention. Many is the late evening and long week-end
I have spent over your versions of Thieu, Thanat, Kosygin,
Lin Piao, Mobuto, Suharto, Obote, and the Shah;t You are
teaching me much about yourselves. Let me say a few words
, therefore, about what I think you are, and what I hope
you will be.
You are sincerely desirous of serving your country.
You are quickly responsive to the will of the President and
the National Security Council
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You selflessly perform the tasks America entrusts to very
;few citizens. You are aware that sometimes these tasks,will
be almost impossible; that is one reason you are keen to
accomplish them. When you fail, you know you will bear
the negative consequences. When you succeed, you hope
no one will be aware of it. All these things I have learned
you already are. Now, let me tell you what I hope, in
addition, you will be.
As our world gets smaller and more complex, you
are going to have to be better. I hope you are constantly
examining your goals cfxal. You
are going to have to stay ahead of everything new in the
world that is significant: new groups, new organizations,
new leaders, new economies, new space, new science...
new growings-together, and new tearings-apart.
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I hope you will remain the quietly disciplined
you `are, but I hope even more you will experiment
and learn. I hope you will change jobs, move around, go
to school, do everything necessary to avoid. the plateau of
self-satisfaction, and the hardened crust of bureaucratic
inertia.
I hope you will recognize, too, that you must change
as life changes. I want you to be ahead of the challenges,
not abreast or behind them. This means retooling--
reschooling--renewing--for everybody--but particularly,
for those who will provide the example, the leadership.
I hope you constantly will re-evaluate your
profession at all levels. That you will define and redefine
the requirements to move up from each level to the next
level. That you will identify the significant tasks of each
job, and demand that promotion be based on creative
growth, and demonstrated accomplishment.
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I hope you will continue to realize that your
profession must be the home of the non-organization
man--the home of the iron-clad Individualist who is big
enough to discipline himself--and great enough to give
to mankind and to his country all that he can become.
I hope you will continue to believe in mankind,
America, and above all, in yourself. I want you to
know your President believes in you, your Vice
President believes In you. Under the distinguished
professional who is your Director, Richard Helms, we
expect you will have the finest period of your continuing
growth and increasing contribution..
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