The friendship and alliance between the Australian and American peoples is forged on the Pacific battlefields of World War II.

The Western economies are pulling out of the serious recession.

I have just concluded a productive meeting and lunch with Prime Minister Trudeau.

We also examined several pressing bilateral issues.

I outlined the need to maintain effective deterrent force and to achieve real movement toward the reduction of nuclear weapons.

We must support the regional efforts now underway to promote solutions to regional problems.

Our purpose, in conformity with American and international law, is to prevent the flow of arms to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the unelected Nicaraguan Government to charge that we seek their overthrow.

El Salvador is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts.

Democracy is beginning to take root in El Salvador, which, until a short time ago, knew only dictatorship.

The countries of Central America are smaller than the nations that prompted President Truman's message.

Central America's problems do directly affect the security and the well-being of our own people.

We do not seek its overthrow.

Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy.

I want all the input, because there are very few issues that don't lap over into other areas.

I'm going to wait, before I make any comment of that kind on whether I'll veto or not, till I see what eventually arrives out of the Legislature.

Those of us who are responsible for security, we don't go at how much we want to spend.

We can't control what they're saying.