Lyndon Johnson: “There is a vigor and a momentum in Turkey today which your friends in America have long and enthusiastically applauded.”

We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.

It is the living and the eternal theme of the United States of America--a Nation that has been made great by an infusion and mingling of all the cultures of the world.

They--and you--are a credit to your generation.

I hope that our countries are always as close as they are today.