-insist that the money we spend through international agencies is in our national interest and in the best interest of the world community.

I expect you to continue to direct and coordinate the activities of the US. departments and agencies involved in international organization affairs and to instruct our representatives to those organizations. I shall look to you to direct this Government's work in

-reviewing and establishing our long-term policy objectives in each major international organization,

-analyzing and determining the U.S. position on programs and budgetary needs of each organization on a timely and continuing basis, and

-recommending steps to improve the effectiveness of each organization in contributing to the objectives of the world community and the United States.

Ambassador Goldberg has unique responsibilities in a wide range of matters relating to the United Nations system. I shall continue to rely heavily on his advice and counsel.

The heads of other Federal departments and agencies have significant interest in activities of the various international organizations. I expect them to provide you with expert assistance in their specialized fields. In this work, the close cooperation of all agencies is needed to provide the essential unity of our effort.

I expect the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to work with you and other agency heads to help assure that the positions we take on the budgets of international organizations reflect a searching scrutiny of requirements and priorities for the expenditure of funds.

I am sending copies of this memorandum to all department and agency heads.*

* In a memorandum, Mar. 15, 1966, to department and agency heads, President Johnson asked them to give their full cooperation to the Secretary of State in carrying out these instructions (Department of State Bulletin, Apr. 11, 1966, p. 578).

Document II-2

Letter From the President (Johnson) to the Congress Transmitting the Twenty-First Annual Report on U.S. Participation in the UN., November 15, 1967 •

United States Participation in the United Nations During 1966

To the Congress of the United States:

I am pleased to transmit the annual report on United States participation in the United Nations for the calendar year 1966.

This report documents our continuing support for the United Nations, and our efforts to help it move toward the lofty goals set forth in its Charter.

Its pages reflect encouraging progress in the effort to further international peace and security, economic and social progress, human rights, and the rule of law among nations. They also reveal some discouraging setbacks.

One outstanding accomplishment during 1966 was the successful negotiation of the Outer Space Treaty, which bans weapons of mass destruction from space and calls for peaceful cooperation in its exploration and use. By unanimous vote, the General Assembly commended the Treaty and urged all nations to adhere to it.'

Not all progress made by the United Nations was dramatic, or widely reported. Within the U.N. system-as elsewhere-disputes and crises make headlines, while the quiet works of peace go largely unnoted. Yet, day by day, in the capitals of more than a hundred nations and in thousands of villages around the world, U.N. representatives work with

U.S. Participation in the UN: Report by the President to the Congress for the Year 1966 (Department of State publication 8276), pp. i-v (hereafter cited as U.S. Participation in the UN, 1966).

See post, doc. X-36.