The purposes of the Council are these: Achieve consistency between domestic and foreign economic policy.

They are critical to the success of the Nixon Doctrine and to our efforts to achieve a peaceful solution in the Middle East.

America's world leadership depends upon our being able to put aside partisan differences when the national interest is at stake and to band together to demonstrate the unity of purpose so vital to the success of our foreign policy.

We have not yet ended the war in Vietnam.

Our countries have a special relationship which we often refer to.

It is clear from our discussions that the friendship that has existed and the close relationship that has existed between our two countries for more than the past two decades will be continued.

And tonight, even as we speak, American men are fighting in a strange land, a half a world away.

I do not want to get into a debate on a foreign policy meeting in Manila with a chronic campaigner like Mr. Nixon.

We in America love and cherish our liberty and our independence and our freedom, and we do not try to impose it upon other people.

We are fighting tonight in Vietnam to make that stand come true.

We seek no eternal hostility.

I summarized briefly my hopes in the seven-nation conference coming up.

We are very anxious to pursue any proposal that would interest the North Vietnamese.

We are not in Vietnam to dictate what form of government they should have.

Mr. Prime Minister, let me assure you that we Americans do understand your language.

I call upon my fellow countrymen to renew their commitment to our neighbors in this hemisphere, and to reaffirm that commitment by support for the Organization of American States.

I believe that those who make that case are no less patriotic and no less sincere than those who believe that we cannot shorten the length of our reach into the world.

The United States made its forces a part of that Inter-American Force.