The President's News Conference
09/28/1966
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I believe that personal contact is essential to understanding--and I know that understanding is the foundation of our common effort.
This is the first time that I step on South American soil.
May the practical example you have given us become the hallmark of this conference.
We are demonstrating that 'free men working through institutions of representative democracy can best satisfy man's ambitions.'