So we are glad to welcome you and to express appreciation to you on behalf of the country for your work in preserving these houses.

We consider this very valuable in the United States because of historic reasons.

So the more that can be done to expose the American people to the very long and justly celebrated cultural tradition of Japan, the richer we will become.

Every dollar we can earn, that you can make, will go to increasing the security of our country.

This is a matter of the greatest national significance to us.

So if you can find new markets, if you can persuade others to come to the United States--we lose in our balance of payments every year $1,800 million on tourists alone; if we could get as many people to come here and spend the same money…

I am glad to welcome the citizens of Illinois, as well as the businessmen, as well as the financiers.

We must be--however happy we are at home, we must look abroad.

If we could increase our exports by 10 percent, we would have solved our balance of payments problem.

Mr. President, it is a source of great satisfaction to all of us to welcome you to the United States and to welcome your wife, the Foreign Minister, members of your government.

Noting the important role Ireland is playing in the United Nations, the President stated that he appreciated the substantial contribution made by Ireland to the establishment of peace and stability in the Congo.