I feel that this is really the Golden Age of the State Department.

In spite of what you read, we love the State Department.

You have been very generous and we appreciate all the presents and we will try to make sure that your visit to Washington brings useful results.

So we are glad you came.

We are especially honored to have a visit from His Majesty, and the Prime Minister, His Majesty's son, and the members of the government, because Laos occupies a most significant place on the world scene.

I take great pleasure in welcoming you to the United States and also your son, your Prime Minister, who honored us by a visit here some months ago, and the members of your government.

Chairman Khrushchev and I, meeting at Vienna, committed our two countries to that objective.

For the peace of the world that this effort succeeds.

You come at a most appropriate moment and I am very proud to welcome you here on behalf of my countrymen.

In conclusion, the two Presidents expressed their gratification at the opportunity thus afforded them to confer together in person.

The two Presidents considered carefully the ways in which Venezuela and the United States could most effectively further the objectives of the Alliance for Progress.

I take particular pleasure in welcoming you to this country.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you and Madame Betancourt to Washington and especially here at the White House.

So, Mr. President, you are a welcome guest.

I hope that your visit here to the United States will remind the people of this country that they have a good deal of unfinished business in this hemisphere.

The Nassau agreement was an effort to meet that.

I don't believe you can talk your way into peace.

For peace takes more than words.