I think we should st- strengthen our conventional forces

And in the most remote bushlands of central Africa there are children named Thomas Jefferson and George Washington - but there are none named Lenin or Stalin or Trotsky.

Our balance-of-payments position must be recognized in framing our domestic economic policies.

I pledge to work with them in applying more rapidly the proven results of their research and experience.

Together we can and will succeed.

I regard this statement as a major document setting forth my objectives and program in this important new field.

Today we honor not only Columbus, the discoverer, but also the millions of Americans of Italian ancestry who have contributed so mightily to the development of the United States.

I do not intend to let Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists decide whether our troops shall fight on those islands.

In this age, when capitalism is on trial, we cannot have a policy that is less than the best.

I do not know whether to regard with alarm or indignation the common assumption of an inevitable conflict between the business community and the Democratic Party.

I believe that if we meet our responsibilities - if we extend the hand of friendship - if we live up to the ideals of our own revolution - then the course of the African revolution in the next decade will be toward democracy and freedom…

Mr. Nixon says that the people who live on those islands 'are not too important.'

I am pleased to note that the program for housing for the elderly which was so vigorously opposed by the Republicans is about to begin its first pilot project.

But Mr. Nixon is not interested in policies of caution in world affairs.

We want to move forward ourselves.

If we carry out this program for Africa with vigor and imagination, then I believe that we can begin to reverse the disastrous errors and neglect of the past 8 years - we can begin to rebuild the cause of freedom in Africa - and we can…

I draw it around Formosa and the Pescadores - the area essential to our security.

He boasts that he is a 'risk taker' abroad and a conservative at home.