Eisenhower: “No man could have done more effective work than you to further that hope.”

Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.

We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.

For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.