The year which is ending has been a troubled one.

It is my earnest hope that the coming year will strengthen the foundations of world peace and will bring an improvement in the relations between our countries, upon which so much depends.

It is our grave responsibility to fulfill that hope.

As the year 1961 approaches its close I wish to extend to the people of the Soviet Union and to you and your families my most sincere wishes and those of the American people for a peaceful and prosperous New Year.

This order revokes Executive Order No. 10025 of December 30, 1948, to the extent that such order relates to the Caribbean Commission.

I hereby designate the Caribbean Organization as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the said International Organizations Immunities Act.

WARNING is expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, deface, or remove any feature of this monument.

It is in the public interest to preserve this area of outstanding scientific, aesthetic, and educational importance for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.

There is hereby reserved and set apart, as the Buck Island Reef National Monument, the area embraced within lines drawn between the coordinates of latitude and longitude recited as follows.

So I am delighted to be here, Prime Minister, and I am most grateful to the Governor General for his warm welcome.

I want to express my great pleasure at having an opportunity to talk to you again, and to visit you on your territory which has been the scene on other occasions of most important meetings beneficial to both our countries.

We have had, since I assumed the responsibility of the Presidency, meetings in Washington and in Florida and in London, and I think it most appropriate at this particular time in the affairs of the world that the United States and Great…

The great fight in the next decade-the decade in which we are now upon--is to prove that freedom and abundance go hand in hand.

Their words to us this morning, and again at midnight as we left this ancient city, I think will be the greatest source of encouragement to the people of the United States, to realize that we are together in a great enterprise which is…

I return tonight to the United States, and I do not want to leave without saying to the people of Colombia that my wife and I have received the most heart-warming welcome that we have ever received.

When they see you they see the United States.

Every one of you symbolizes our country, and that is a great responsibility, far greater than it has ever been in the past.

I think this visit--I hope--has pleased our friends--confounded our enemies; and I think that it has brought our two countries, whose fate has been so interwoven from our earliest days, closer together.

President Kennedy and President Betancourt joined in expressing their hope that this statement made today in the birth place of Simon Bolivar will be received by the peoples of this continent as a message of faith and optimism.

If we can do that, if the name of the United States can be identified with this great cause in the 1960's, then I think the interests of our country and the interests of freedom and the interests of this country are well served.

So, Mr. President, I don't think that we will travel any place where our welcome will be more heart-warming, and where we will leave with greater appreciation.

I want to express my great appreciation to you and to the people of this country for their generous welcome to my wife and to myself.

We have come to this open field today to join in making this a better dwelling place for men.

I therefore want to express my appreciation to all of you for your generosity in permitting us to be here today in Techo.

All of us as Americans are most appreciative of the generous reception which the people of this city and country have given us.