The leaders of the two Governments reached full agreement upon a policy of growing military effectiveness.
It was agreed that Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and a team of agricultural experts would proceed at once to Vietnam.
The United States seeks no bases.
We are a Government, indeed a generation, of revolutionary transformation.
The purpose of the United States remains a purpose of peace.
It seeks no colonial presence.
The Government of North Vietnam noted with regret the total absence of a present interest in peace.
The road ahead may be long and may be difficult.
Their fundamental concord of purpose and policy is stated in the Declaration of Honolulu.
They are out there dying in order to save freedom.
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 to impose no alliance or alignment.
It seeks only to prevent aggression, and its pledge to that purpose is firm.
And yet they fight on.
We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us.
Our stand must be as firm as ever.
I welcome these two brave leaders of the Vietnamese Republic and their colleagues to American soil.
