Let us renew that spirit by concerting our energy and our hope with men and women everywhere that the world may move more rapidly toward the time when Thanksgiving may be a day of universal celebration.

It is fitting that we give our thanks for the safety of our land, for the fertility of our harvests, for the strength of our liberties, for the health of our people.

I urge that all observe this day with reverence and with humility.

Let us renew that spirit by sharing the abundance of this day with those less fortunate, in our own land and abroad.

The Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled, their missiles and related equipment are being crated, and the fixed installations at these sites are being destroyed.

The United States intends to follow closely the completion of this work through a variety of means, including aerial surveillance, until such time as an equally satisfactory international means of verification is effected.

Progress is now being made towards the restoration of peace in the Caribbean, and it is our firm hope and purpose that this progress shall go forward.

He teaches us to see international law not as a series of abstract rules, but as the product of experience in operating actual institutions of the international community.

Judge Jessup has come to the International Court of Justice with the understanding that a regime of international law must be achieved by the efforts of men engaged in the daily work of regulating practical relations among states.

We are gratified that Chairman Khrushchev has agreed to withdraw these weapons from this hemisphere.

I think that we take the REA so much for granted that we ignore the extraordinary and really revolutionary increase in the electrification of American farms which occurred in almost a decade.

What we have done can be done in a great many other countries with this organizational arrangement and with stimulation from both their national governments and their local communities.

I hope that today's action is only the beginning of a very concentrated cooperative effort.

In other words, we've done a good deal here.

When some saw what could be done, then all wanted to do it.

The fact that he sits on the International Court of Justice with the unique twin heritage of the American common lawyer and the international lawyer holds out to all of us the promise that he will contribute strongly to the effectiveness…

I deplore this further instance of armed aggression by Communist China and hope that that state can be persuaded to abandon its flagrant violation of the territorial integrity of its neighbors.

So I think this can be very important, in fact one of the most significant actions taken by the AID agency.

I AM pleased to witness the signing of the contract between the Agency for International Development and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which will enable us to assist underdeveloped countries in realizing the benefits…

I'm hopeful that the United States Government and the AID agency will follow this up immediately, and will particularly concentrate their first efforts, as I've said, on Latin America, will concentrate their attention there on several…

Hence, we have as great an incentive as any state to do all in our power to preserve this peace.

Judge Jessup's scholarship has enriched his field.

I think this is going to be very helpful.

His involvement in the actual practice of international law has lent particular realism to his theoretical work in the field.

I want to say, as President of the United States, that we have the greatest debt to all of you.