We think this program is just.

But I accept your decision, appreciative of the motivations which led to it.

The Presidents also emphasized the importance of the more fully developed countries extending economic and technical assistance to the developing states of the world.

They stressed that Italy and the United States would work together with other nations in consolidating peace and freedom throughout the world.

We think this program makes sense.

Mr. President, I am confident that our nations have the resources and the energies to move these goals, to solve these problems, to face these tasks that confront us both.

Personally, I will never forget the warm hospitality that we received on my visit to Rome in the fall of 1962 and then again last summer when I attended the funeral of Pope John.

The United States tries to live by the policy of the good neighbor and expects others to do the same.

As you know, my State of the Union Message proposed an all-out war on poverty in America.

Mr. President, Mrs. Johnson and I are delighted to welcome you, Madame Segni, your distinguished Foreign Minister, Mr. Saragat, and other members of your party to the United States.

So we join also in strengthening the security of the free world and in seeking to brighten the prospects for world peace for our time and for all time to come.