Well, on this I refuse to turn and run.

We have no time for callousness on contempt, either in the policies of our Nation or in the hearts of our leaders.

So today I call upon you to answer your Nation's challenge, to answer it by being leaders for a united America, united and indivisible under God.

If we are to remain a great nation, we must be led by great people.

I recognize, as I know you recognize, that we cannot be the leader of the world and the follower in space.

I want to commend each of you.

I would like to see every person who felt that our program and our leadership for all America was preferred by them, to vote for us.

As long as I am President I will bend every effort to make sure that that day never comes.

I can't tell you that every decision I make will be the right one.

I wish you and your government every success in the tasks that lie ahead of you.

It gives me pleasure to have this opportunity of assuring Your Majesty that while I remain head of this nation I shall not cease to promote every measure that may contribute to the friendship and harmony which so happily subsist between your Empire and this Republic and shall esteem myself happy in every occasion of convincing Your Majesty of the high sense which, in common with the whole nation, I entertain of the magnanimity, wisdom, and benevolence of Your Majesty.

This is an extraordinary airport in an extraordinary city, in an extraordinary country, and it is a tribute to the constructive action of the Federal Government, the State government, and the city government, under the distinguished leadership of your great mayor, Mayor Daley.

My fervent hope is that the United States of America, in meeting the needs of this decade, will also be peopled by 'men able to use their opportunities.'

Chicago is blessed to have such men at its helm.

And when that happens, we want the United States to be in the lead, as it has been in the lead in jet transportation since the jet was invented.

My judgment is that the decision reached by Secretary McNamara was the right one, sound one, and any fair and objective hearing will bring that out.

And I must say, Mr. President, I know of no more vital, energetic, warmhearted, vigorous, hopeful people than the great citizens of this great democracy.

This is a great responsibility, a great opportunity, and you are the leaders of it.