The situation in your embattled country is well known to me and to the American people.

The United States, like the Republic of Viet-Nam, remains devoted to the cause of peace and our primary purpose is to help your people maintain their independence.

Our indignation has mounted as the deliberate savagery of the Communist program of assassination, kidnapping and wanton violence became clear.

We are confident that the Vietnamese people will preserve their independence and gain the peace and prosperity for which they have sought so hard and so long.

I want to express the thanks of all of us to you--you welcomed our Peace Corps representatives and gave them training which I think has contributed to their success.

Puerto Rico serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America.

We shall seek to persuade the Communists to give up their attempts of force and subversion.

We come here today and I will value your counsel, and I'm sure as a result of our stay here that our journeys tomorrow and Sunday will be more fruitful.

The campaign of force and terror now being waged against your people and your Government is supported and directed from the outside by the authorities at Hanoi.

The Commission shall terminate not later than October 1, 1963.

There is hereby established the President's Commission on the Status of Women, referred to herein as the 'Commission'.