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The President's Reading Copy Inter-American Press Association Washington, D. C. October 31, 1969 ACTION FOR PROGRESS FOR THE AMERICAS This is to to a the people ly 7 am amin print ly list Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the Inter-American Press sothlet Association, I welcome this opportunity to speak to you and to our neighbors throughout the new world about a matter uppermost in the minds and hearts of all of us. 2 want to to speak to you about the state of our partnership in the Americas. (1) In doing so, I wish to place before you some suggestions for reshaping and re-invigorating that partnership. Often we in the United States have been charged with an overweening confidence in the rightness of our own prescriptions: occasionally we have been guilty of the charge. 1. I intend to correct that. (1) Therefore, my words tonight are meant as an invitation by one partner for further interchange, for increased communication, and above all for new imagination in meeting our shared responsibilities.