So I was anxious to have you come to the White House because we want to emphasize the necessity for the experience which you are going through, that it be shared by all people in the National Government who have anything to do with our…

This most ancient form of warfare, going back as it has to its earliest beginnings, has become far more important than it has ever been in the past, and it is going to become more important in the future.

We sometimes take some encouragement in the fact that there are so many obvious evidences of a desire of people to be free and a desire of people to maintain their anti-Communist position.

I congratulate the Institute for its initiative, and we are going to attempt to encourage this kind of effort in every other college and school that we have which is involved with national security.

I WANT to welcome you all to the White House and to tell you that I am very appreciative to have a chance to say a word to you.

The foreign Service Institute has done an excellent job in laying this out.

Therefore, in the final analysis, it depends on you.

I think this is much more beautiful, much more appropriate.

Somebody told me that you are about the only two men around who can do this work, so we want to take good care of you.

Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson were both men of extraordinary versatility and combined a great many talents.

My own feeling is that there is a place for the non-career Ambassador--not for political reasons, but when he happens to be the best man available.