We are a great country, a strong country, a vital and a dynamic country—and so we will remain.

it is fitting that we commemorate the event both with gratitude for the ways in which science and engineering have helped to unite us and with fervent hopes that such communications will serve the future course of peace and human progress…

we have built on the invention of the distinguished Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi and others, a global communications system that allows instant contact not only between heads of state but peoples of all nations.

I would certainly take that action as President to guarantee that the canal is defended.

Under six Presidents, three Republicans and three Democrats, there has been a recognition from the White House that the treaties that are presently in existence need to be modified.

I would hate to have to do this.

I think they are fair to both the United States and Panama.

I believe that there's a growing sentiment, both in the United States among our people and also among the Senators who have studied this matter so carefully, that the treaties indeed should be ratified, and ratified without delay.

It would be a severe blow, not only to the Panamanian people but to the American people as well.

Well, the answer is yes.

I think that if the treaties were rejected, there might be some attempt to disrupt the canal.

We have the military strength to do it, and I would take that action.

The best way to ensure friendship between us and Panama is to go ahead and ratify the treaties that we have negotiated in good faith.

It's obvious to me that anyone who wanted to disrupt the friendship between ourselves and Panama would be very much in favor of the treaties being rejected.

Hubert Humphrey was such a man.

His greatest personal attribute was that he really knew how to love.

Even as we mourn his death, we celebrate because such a man as Hubert Humphrey was among us.

At critical times in our history, the United States has been blessed by great people who, just by being themselves, give us a vision of what we are at our best and of what we might become.