We have a good many things in our country that are worth retaining.

So I appreciate your coming here, and I think it is appropriate that this trip have a send-off here from the White House and the Capital, because you are going not only on your own business, but on the Nation's business.

This is part of the arrangement which was agreed to about 2 years ago with your distinguished Prime Minister, that the United States and Japan would attempt to come to much more intimate understandings in the economic, scientific, and cultural fields.

So if you can find new markets, if you can persuade others to come to the United States--we lose in our balance of payments every year $1,800 million on tourists alone; if we could get as many people to come here and spend the same money that our peripatetic, ubiquitous Americans spend, Senator, traveling around--if we could get them, we could solve our balance of payments problem.

So the more that can be done to expose the American people to the very long and justly celebrated cultural tradition of Japan, the richer we will become.

We consider this very valuable in the United States because of historic reasons.

If we could increase our exports by 10 percent, we would have solved our balance of payments problem.

So we are glad to welcome you and to express appreciation to you on behalf of the country for your work in preserving these houses.

Every dollar we can earn, that you can make, will go to increasing the security of our country.

This is a new stream for us, and therefore it will invigorate our people.

We must be--however happy we are at home, we must look abroad.