Pres. Johnson's State of the Union speeches: on Free Trade


Expand world trade: goods should move freely across borders

Our ultimate goal is a world without war, in which all men, goods, and ideas can freely move across every border and every boundary. We must advance toward this goal in 1964 in at least 10 different ways:
  1. We must maintain our margin of military safety and superiority
  2. We must take new steps toward the control and the eventual abolition of arms
  3. We must make increased use of our food as an instrument of peace
  4. We must assure our pre-eminence in the peaceful exploration of outer space
  5. We must expand world trade. We are willing to give our trading partners competitive access to our market, asking only that they do the same for us
  6. We must continue recent progress toward balancing our international accounts
  7. We must become better neighbors with the free states of the Americas
  8. We must strengthen the ability of free nations to raise their standard of living
  9. We must strengthen our Atlantic and Pacific partnerships
  10. We must bridge the gap between the East and the West.
Source: Pres. Johnson's 1964 State of the Union message to Congress Jan 8, 1964

  • The above quotations are from Pres. Johnson's State of the Union messages to Congress, 1964-1969.
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Robert Steele(L-NY)
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