So I am delighted to have you all here, representing, as you do, our best hopes for this hemisphere.

So we say goodbye and many thanks. Hasta luego and viva Costa Rica.

We will leave tomorrow and go back home and continue our work.

It is sometimes easy for us, living in our nations' capitals, to become disheartened about the nature of the struggle.

Education, homes, jobs, health, security-those are the things for which this country stands.

Those are the things which together we must achieve for our people, and I want to assure you through the Alliance for Progress we will stand and work shoulder to shoulder in making this hemisphere an example of what democracy can mean.

Gentlemen: I want to again express, on behalf of all of us, our great appreciation to our hosts, the Presidents of the Central American Republics, and the President of Panama.

If there is any theme which I think this conference best expresses, it is the common dependence we have one upon another.

I want to express our very warm thanks and appreciation to all those who work for the United States Government here in Costa Rica.

That is the responsibility of all of us.

This is a most critical time in the life of our country.