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I am proud, Mr. President, to welcome you to the United States this morning as a fellow American, as a fellow partner in our hemispheric alliance and as a fellow worker in the cause of peace and all mankind.
As we shall never turn away from democracy, so we shall never turn back from the quest for honorable peace.
This new agreement thus represents a logical and useful step in our continuing and varied efforts to ensure wider Allied participation in NATO nuclear defense.
It is needed to enhance the effectiveness of NATO defense.
The work of the Alliance for Progress which President Kennedy began goes forward with growing momentum among all the good neighbors of this hemisphere.
On political grounds, it is needed to reinforce NATO cohesion by meeting our Allies' legitimate desire to make a constructive contribution to nuclear defense.
The new agreement will supersede an existing agreement executed in 1955.
It is both a great privilege and a great personal pleasure to welcome you to our country and to this Capital City.
Together in peace, we work in the new world for a new age of progress, a new era of prosperity for all Americans of all walks of life.
We of the United States, Mr. President, are steadfast in our conviction and in our determination that we shall succeed in achieving the goals of our great Alliance for Progress.
As President Kennedy said when he visited your capital last year, the unique inter-American system of international cooperation is now demonstrating in this hemisphere that economic prosperity is the handmaiden of political liberty.
Such wider participation is necessary on both military and political grounds.
The Alliance for Progress is transforming the bitter living of the underprivileged in Latin America, and it is demonstrating that democracy is more than voting.
We have worked together in the past with a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation.
In the Americas we today realize that peace among nations can only flourish when men have found peace in their individual lives.
Today your visit symbolizes anew the growing strength of the friendly and cordial bonds between our countries.
Ambassador Lodge is finishing his service as Ambassador there with this meeting.
From the beginning of the atomic age, the American people have been determined that the power of the atom should be used for human progress and should be used for peace.