We want to defeat aggression.

I am confident that it will render equally signal service to the defense of our two countries in the years ahead.

President Johnson noted with deep appreciation the contribution of the Republic of Korea towards the defense of Viet-Nam.

The peace depends upon our strength.

We must always be prepared and have the arms and the strength to defend America.

We are prepared to defend peace and freedom and do it promptly against any act of hostility or aggression anywhere.

We must be ready to defend the national interest and to negotiate the common interest.

We will demonstrate anew that the strong can be just in the use of strength; and the just can be strong in the defense of justice.

We in the United States remain ready, as I know you do, to work with all our allies to insure that ours is a growing partnership of freedom based on shared responsibility for the most effective defense of our people and our freedom.

We have more bombers, we have more missiles, we have well trained men.

America seeks a growing partnership of freedom, a partnership that is based on shared respect of reality and shared responsibility for effective defense.

For us in the United States NATO is a tested and a recognized cornerstone of United States foreign policy.

I want to tell you as long as I am President, I intend to keep our defenses the best in all the world.

I know, from what Congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio has told me, how much the parliamentarians have done to plan to ensure that this great instrument of the defense of freedom will flourish and continue to keep the peace.

We will always stand with you in the defense of freedom.

We estimate that they have withdrawn approximately 3,000 troops in these past weeks.

We have indicated that we would keep our commitments to Europe, and we have indicated that our atomic strength is sufficient to defend Europe and the United States and our other interests.

These plans and programs shall be designed to develop a state of readiness in these areas with respect to all conditions of national emergency, including attack upon the United States and, consistent with applicable provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, will be closely coordinated with the Department of Defense and the Office of Emergency Planning.