We will do, though, what must be done and we will do only what must be done.
Whether it be in Viet-Nam, where a brave people struggle for their own freedom, or whether it is in the Dominican Republic, where the spoile...
For all of my public life, when I am in need of light I turn to the REA.
I did not fully appreciate that my uniform completely concealed my status as a Congressman.
Once our promise is broken in one place, even though it is a little country called South Viet-Nam, America's promise is worthless in all pla...
We will not use our great power in any reckless or casual manner.
We must do whatever must be done to insure our success.
Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for territory, not for dominio...
We are giving that help, we are giving it because of our commitments, because of our principles, and because we believe that our national in...
We are there because we have to be.
I know that no American serviceman wants to kill anyone.
We hope to see a government freely chosen by the will of all the people.
That is why the hopes and the concern of this entire hemisphere are, on this Sabbath-Sunday, focused on the Dominican Republic.
But we do not intend to be buried.
I have just come from a meeting with the leaders of both parties in the Congress which was held in the Cabinet Room in the White House.
The American nations cannot, must not, and will not permit the establishment of another Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.
Our forces, American forces, were ordered in immediately to protect American lives.
In this situation hesitation and vacillation could mean death for many of our people, as well as many of the citizens of other lands.
