4:00 - 4:30 p.m.
President Kennedy holds his eighteenth news conference
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President Kennedy announces that he will seek additional funds for defense in fiscal year 1962. He also states the the U.S. must rework its foreign trade policy.
President Kennedy announces that former President Eisenhower has agreed to be chairman of the board of trustees of a new people-to-people organization which is designed to foster contacts between citizens of the United States and people from other countries "in every way possible."
President Kennedy announces that General Maxwell Taylor has returned from his mission to South Vietnam and has reported his findings.
President Kennedy sends a telegram to Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis of Greece congratulating him on his reappointment to that post.
President Kennedy appoints a panel to study Tunisia's economic development plans.