Our high voyage, Mr. President, is not to seek new lands to conquer, but to make sure that old lands remain free.
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The fact that the Argentine immediately not only supported the effort in the OAS, but also sent air and naval forces to assist in the quarantine was important not only because of the forces involved, but also because it indicated…
We are particularly glad to have the members of the military forces of the Argentine here.
Chairman Khrushchev and I, meeting at Vienna, committed our two countries to that objective.
We are wholeheartedly behind your effort to maintain the freedom of your people and we wish for you what we wish for ourselves, and that is peace and an opportunity to develop our country.
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 am sure you know that you can count on the friendship of the United States, the good will of the United States and the determination of the United States to bear our share of the burdens in assisting you and your countrymen who wish to…
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.
The United States would review in advance with Venezuela such substantive changes in the oil import program as the United States may contemplate in the future.
In conclusion, the two Presidents expressed their gratification at the opportunity thus afforded them to confer together in person.
Venezuela has been an essential and consistent supplier of petroleum to the United States and to the free world in times of peace and in periods of emergency.
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.
I take particular pleasure in welcoming you to this country.
The Nassau agreement was an effort to meet that.
That is why this question of American prestige is so important.
I have made the charge in this campaign that our prestige has been declining, and our prestige is important, because it involves the question of whether other countries will follow our leadership.
The reason that countries of Africa no longer support the United States and look to it is because we have been indifferent to the problems of that vital continent.
Here is the headline on these findings which have been kept secret up to today: 'United States Survey Funds Others Consider the Soviet Union the Mightiest.'