Diplomacy

I think it is very clear that while we do our recommending, we have to find some way to get them to come in there, and also to get the members of the Security Council to be willing to do it.

I don't know what proposals His Holiness might make.

After final discussions with Dr. Burkley in Seoul, Korea, on Tuesday, I accepted his recommendation that the operation take place within 15 or 18 days from now.

We have fallen in love with your country and with your people.

We expressed our great desire at any time, any place, to transfer our difficulties from the battlefield to the conference room.

President Johnson assured President Park that the United States has no plan to reduce the present level of United States forces in Korea, and would continue to support Korean armed forces at levels adequate to ensure Korea's security.

The seven nations there agreed to four goals: to be free from aggression; to try to resist an aggressor.

My Korean friends, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the warmth of your welcome.

Their leaders, along with your leaders, are willing to go anywhere, meet with any government at any time, and enter into any honorable agreement that will settle our differences at the conference table instead of on the battlefield.

I extend to you, Mr. President, and to all the people of Korea, America's hand of friendship and admiration, and I look forward eagerly to the next few days that I shall spend here with you and your countrymen.

My friends, I shall forever cherish the memory of this delightful day that I have spent in your land and the reception that you have given me--and Mrs. Johnson--as the representatives of the American people.

Let us lay aside our arms and sit down together at the table of reason.

Cooperation between our two countries has grown.

You are helping to build peace.

I cannot tell you how happy I am this afternoon to be able to return again to Thailand.

We have looked forward so eagerly to returning and spending these next few days in your land again.

We seek no eternal hostility.

For our passion is peace.