I am happy to renew my invitation to the alliance to hold that meeting in Washington on May 30 and 31.

The open demonstration of mutual commitment for the future of the ideals and principles of our two nations has indeed been reassuring to us and, I believe, even to the rest of the world.

I want to express my personal thanks to your great President and to the wonderful people of France.

I think the Curtain is being parted.

When we are clean and decent they are pleased.

I felt just as much at home in that Indian village as I did in the palaces.

I would say the most emotional day was yesterday with the visit to Normandy.

That is the challenge for our alliance: to defend our values fearlessly, while tirelessly working to prevent war.

We tried to emphasize everywhere I went the concepts of morality and decency and goodness and friendship and human rights.

I think we also put forward the image of a nation that is strong and secure and self-confident.

The ancient soil of Europe bears constant, visible evidence of the carnage that war inevitably brings.

The United States will continue to maintain—undiminished—its firm commitment to NATO and will continue to provide the forces needed to back up that commitment.

It was a very deeply moving experience.

I leave here with a great sense of trust and a great sense of appreciation for not only the strength of the alliance in the past.

There is no doubt that the friendship between ourselves and Poland, ourselves and India, ourselves and Saudi Arabia, ourselves and Iran, ourselves and Egypt, ourselves and France and Belgium were enhanced.

But we were received with open arms, and it was a natural outburst of friendship and appreciation, even there, for what our country stands for.

I have a much more sure sense of what those words really mean.

It is indeed a great honor for me, as President of the United States, to come here to pay homage to the brave men and women of the past who have ensured our precious freedom today.