323. Editorial Note
On June 1 President Johnson sent a special message to the Congress requesting the appropriation of an additional $89 million for fiscal year 1966 for the Agency for International Development. The additional funds were requested for the expanded program of economic and social development in Southeast Asia that had been outlined in the President’s speech at Johns Hopkins University on April 7. (See Document 245.) In press conference remarks on June 1, relating to the request for the additional appropriation, President Johnson noted that his personal representative, former World Bank President Eugene R. Black, had begun extensive negotiations to lay the international groundwork for a long-range development program for Southeast Asia. (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, Book II, pages 610–611) The Foreign Assistance Act of 1965, which appropriated the additional funds requested on June 1, was signed into law on September 6 by President Johnson. (79 Stat. 653)