The President's News Conference
01/16/1967
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Maybe somehow, some way, sometime there will be somebody willing to sit down at the table and talk instead of kill, discuss instead of fight...
It is clear from our discussions that the friendship that has existed and the close relationship that has existed between our two countries ...
We want, more than anything else, peace in the world and prosperity for all of its peoples.
I want to negotiate.