Richard Nixon

The quality of courage, the quality of the ability to convince others of a point of view, and the quality of being able to bring a nation back after that nation has fallen on difficult days.

We were completely agreed, for example, in the importance of French-American friendship.

It is a great honor for me to stand here on the soil of the nation that is America's oldest ally and America's oldest friend.

We have discussed the whole range of world problems--the problems of East-West relations, the problems of the Mideast and Mediterranean, financial problems, and trade problems, as well as many others

We also recognize that there are other sources of great leadership.

Mr. President, your life has been an example to millions of your countrymen and to millions throughout the world.

What we seek is to find those new roads which will lead to cooperation and to peace and freedom for all the people of the world.

And then there is one other quality we have found always in our visits with you and which we seek now and are finding now, and that is the quality of wisdom and vision.

The vision that sees beyond the crisis of the moment, that sees the great forces that are at play in the world and, therefore, is able to have the perspective that leaders need to make the right decisions, the decisions that will stand…

I ask all of you to raise your glasses to a nation and a people with whom the United States has had the longest uninterrupted friendship--200 years---of any nation in the world, and to a leader who has become a giant among men because he…

It has been very helpful to me to get the counsel and the suggestions that you and the members of your government have with regard to the position the United States should take on these problems

I express my deep appreciation for your very gracious hospitality and for your eloquent remarks.

Most important the substance has been solid and we have now developed a new pattern of consultation and progress for the future

I realize that I stand here at a time in history which will long be remembered.

We have known this nation as a brave ally in time of war and as a loyal companion in searching the ways of peace.

But everyone who has had the privilege of knowing this nation from visiting it, as I have on many occasions, would share the sentiment expressed by Benjamin Franklin many years ago when he said that every man has two homes: 'France and his…

Whatever the validity of that complaint may have been in the past, I can assure you that there will be no problem in that respect in the future

We will enter into those negotiations whenever we think it is appropriate and whenever we think they will serve the cause of peace.

Cooperation between the German and American Governments is vital and essential if we are to defend the freedom which we both cherish and if we are to achieve the peace which we both seek.

That is why I appreciate this opportunity to consult with the leaders of your government.

I am deeply grateful for the eloquent words that you have expressed as I leave your country and .leave this city which is such a vitally important part of your country.

Today, I declare again that we, the people of the United States, stand with you in the defense of freedom.

But as we think of that, and as I declare again, as I did in my earlier meetings with you and with members of this government, our adherence to and our support of NATO and the Atlantic Alliance, let us also look to how we can further…

Our task is to set up a new international psychology, to have a new, real atmosphere where what men once considered theoretical and idealistic turns out to be practical and necessary.

I stand here today as a symbol of that fifth power, the power which will not be intimidated by any threat, by any pressure from any direction.