Diplomacy

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.

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

For the peace of the world that this effort succeeds.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 take particular pleasure in welcoming you to this country.

The Nassau agreement was an effort to meet that.

Words alone will never impress Mr. Khrushchev.

For peace takes more than words.

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

I come to Houston to melt the ice - and I don't mean the ice on that rink.