The road ahead may be long and may be difficult.
We are a Government, indeed a generation, of revolutionary transformation.
It was agreed that Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and a team of agricultural experts would proceed at once to Vietnam.
It seeks to impose no alliance or alignment.
Their fundamental concord of purpose and policy is stated in the Declaration of Honolulu.
The leaders of the two Governments reached full agreement upon a policy of growing military effectiveness.
They are out there dying in order to save freedom.
It seeks only to prevent aggression, and its pledge to that purpose is firm.
The purpose of the United States remains a purpose of peace.
The United States seeks to impose no alliance or alignment.
We shall fight the battle against aggression in Vietnam to a successful conclusion.
It seeks no colonial presence.
The United States seeks no bases.
The Government of North Vietnam noted with regret the total absence of a present interest in peace.
So this afternoon I extend to these two friends and these allies of ours a most warm welcome to our country.
And yet they fight on.
We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us.
We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us, or that subjugation by an arme...
