To those participating in this 3-day exercise, I express my appreciation for your active response to the obligations of citizenship in a free country.

I believe that we are going to fail as well as succeed, but I believe that we are at least going to make the effort.

Only the United States has the power and the resources and the determination.

I said in my Inaugural Address that no group of people in any generation since democracy was first developed by the ancient Greeks nearly twenty-four or -five hundred years ago, have ever borne a responsibility as great as ours.

In expressing the best wishes of my country, I speak for a people who cherish individual liberty and independence, and who have made great sacrifices so that these vital principles might endure.

It is with special pleasure, therefore, that we witness the assumption by this new nation of its sovereign place in the world community.

I am confident that in years to come our two countries will stand as one in safeguarding the greatest of all bonds between us, our common belief in a free and democratic way of life.

President Kennedy stated that the Indonesian Eight-Year Development Plan provides further opportunity for the two nations to work together.

This country must move forward.

So this Academy is most important.

You are motivated by desire to see the public interest expanded.