CHAPTER 20 



REPORTS OF THE PANEL CHAIRMEN 



Tuesday, May 25, 1965 



The Conference Chairman, Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I want to say to 

 you all that we have a tremendous debt of gratitude to the President 

 for making this conference possible. We are especially grateful to 

 Mrs. Johnson. She got us off to a fine start with her opening re- 

 marks and demonstrated her personal interest by sitting in on the 

 panel sessions these past two days. 



We have a debt to a great many other people as well. First, there 

 are our panel chairmen, who have not only worked so ably here, 

 but have spent many hours and days preparing. The panel mem- 

 bers who served with them were equally dedicated, and they did a 

 brilliant job. 



Then, those of you who have come to these meetings as conferees 

 and observers have added enormously. I only wish we had had more 

 time for your questions and comments. It is just one of the frustra- 

 tions of a conference that time is such a limiting factor. 



The people in the Government agencies have been fantastically 

 cooperative. We are especially grateful to the department heads 

 who make up the Recreation Advisory Council. They have advised 

 us all along and it meant a great deal to have them meet with us 

 this morning. 



The State Department has put itself out in making these magnifi- 

 cent facilities available to us. I know no equal of the set-up we had 

 for the buffet luncheons. 



Let us also give thanks to the press. I know the conference has 

 been difficult to cover, but they have done an extremely good job, 

 and this is most important to our efforts. 



Finally, I want to mention two individuals in particular : William 

 H. Whyte, Jr., and Henry Diamond. They were the conference co- 

 directors on both the substance and the form, and without their 

 leadership we could not have had this conference. 



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