These are very difficult years.

Chicago is blessed to have such men at its helm.

This Nation must do better than that.

I have on many occasions indicated my wholehearted support for this particular proposal.

We will continue to do it.

I plan to get the tax cut.

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.

It is a great pleasure to leave Washington, where I am lectured to by professors, to come to Costa Rica where I can speak to students.

Occasionally, universities are regarded as dangerous places for Presidents, and we are grateful to you for your warm welcome to all of us on this occasion.

So I am delighted to have you all here, representing, as you do, our best hopes for this hemisphere.

It is sometimes easy for us, living in our nations' capitals, to become disheartened about the nature of the struggle.

We will leave tomorrow and go back home and continue our work.

This is a most critical time in the life of our country.

I want to express our very warm welcome to all of you.

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

I would say that the agreement is an equitable agreement.

There is a rhythm to personal and national and international life and it flows and ebbs.

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