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Foreign policy in its total context

With this enlarged role in mind, I should like to make a few suggestions: What we in the United States do or do not do will make a very large difference in what happens in the rest of the world.

We in this Department must think about foreign policy in its total context.

We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.

Foreign policy is the total involvement of the American people with peoples and governments abroad.

That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.

It is the concern of the Department of State that the American people are safe and secure -- defense is not a monopoly concern of the Department of Defense.

It is also the concern of the Department of State that our trading relationships with the rest of the world are vigorous, profitable, and active -- this is not just a passing interest or a matter of concern only to the Department of Commerce.

We can no longer rely on interdepartmental machinery `` somewhere upstairs '' to resolve differences between this and other departments.

Assistant Secretaries of State will now carry an increased burden of active formulation and coordination of policies.

Means must be found to enable us to keep in touch as regularly and as efficiently as possible with our colleagues in other departments concerned with foreign policy.