The obligation of the 180 million Americans to you and those like you in dozens of pursuits is unlimited.

Your work protects private property, which is the basis of our social life and our family life.

Your work permits us to meet our responsibilities as a Nation.

All of this means that this great Academy, with its long tradition, fulfills a great public need.

So I'm very proud to have you here.

I'm hopeful that Brazil and the United States will continue to walk together, we hope in peace.

As long as we are free, as long as we are able to maintain that freedom, we have to use that freedom, and use it to provide internally a more equitable and more fruitful life for the people in all the hemisphere.

I want to emphasize what I think is our common view: that we in this hemisphere are not merely against something; we are strongly for something, and that is the opportunity to provide, through freedom, a better life for our people.

In a sense we are all the objects or the subjects of a most extraordinary historic experience, and we are, it seems to me, bound together essentially today in the preservation of the freedom of our hemisphere.

I send to you my best wishes.

The continuation of this threat, or a prolonging of this discussion concerning Cuba by linking these problems to the broader questions of European and world security, would surely lead to an intensification of the Cuban crisis and a grave…

The first thing that needs to be done, however, is for work to cease on offensive missile bases in Cuba and for all weapons systems in Cuba capable of offensive use to be rendered inoperable, under effective United Nations arrangements.

I would like to say again that the United States is very much interested in reducing tensions and halting the arms race; and if your letter signifies that you are prepared to discuss a detente affecting NATO and the Warsaw Pact, we are…

But the first ingredient, let me emphasize, is the cessation of work on missile sites in Cuba and measures to render such weapons inoperable, under effective international guarantees.

It is therefore the position of the United States that as an urgent preliminary to consideration of any proposals work on the Cuban bases must stop; offensive weapons must be rendered inoperable; and further shipment of offensive weapons…

I have read your letter of October 26th with great care and welcomed the statement of your desire to seek a prompt solution to the problem.

I should like to take advantage of this occasion to congratulate the people of Brazil on your recent elections which I have followed with great interest.

Unfortunately, the recent challenge to the peace and security of this hemisphere posed by the Soviet offensive military buildup in Cuba requires my presence in the United States and compels me to request your concurrence in a postponement…

I also recall with pleasure, Mr. President, the personal friendship established with you during your visit to the United States last April, and I am anxious to renew and deepen our personal relations.

In view of the disappointment Mrs. Kennedy and I experienced last July in having to postpone our visit to Brazil, we have been especially anxious that nothing should again require us to defer the pleasure of visiting for the first time…

Mrs. Kennedy and I are looking forward particularly to visiting Brazil because of the long-standing friendship and cooperation between the governments and peoples of our two countries in the pursuit of peace and a happier world society.

In your message and your statement to the Security Council last night, you have made certain suggestions and have invited preliminary talks to determine whether satisfactory arrangements can be assured.

I can assure you of our desire to reach a satisfactory and peaceful solution of the matter.

Ambassador Stevenson is ready to discuss these arrangements with you.

Will you please arrange for the necessary transfer of funds and advise the various agencies when this has been accomplished.