I called President Salinas, and I told him that the Vice President and Chief of Staff McLarty would be available to go to Mexico City when NAFTA is ratified by both nations.

I believe that the package of confidence-building measures is fair and balanced.

He will serve our country well as Ambassador to this important ally and trading partner.

Our job is to negotiate firmly in the interests of the United States, and we're doing that.

I probably have more admiration for your country in more ways than any President who has ever served.

I have insisted on the fullest possible accounting from the Vietnamese Government and pressed for further progress.

I am particularly glad that Richard Holbrooke will be serving our country as Ambassador to Germany.

This Convention is aimed at precluding such incidents from recurring.

Donald Johnson has served our country with distinction for almost two decades in the Foreign Service.

I am pleased that he will be taking this ambassadorial post.

She was the first First Lady to represent the President of the United States on an official overseas visit.

There is no closer partnership between two nations than that which we have with our neighbor Mexico.

It is imperative that the United States have talented diplomats working to ensure that the process continues to move forward.

These Ambassadors are a talented and experienced group who will, I am sure, represent our country's interests ably.

I announce my intention to nominate William Harrison Courtney to be Ambassador of the United States of America to Kazakhstan.

I announce my intention to nominate Richard H. Solomon to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines.

I intend to nominate Ruth A. Davis, of Georgia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Benin.

There is no greater gift to the people of America, to the people of Russia, to the people all over the world than an end to the awful specter of global war.