We know that we are an energetic people.

All men are diminished by dictatorship and by thought control.

I am not timid about America's future.

So, my friends of Oklahoma, your President, your country--all 50 States, more than 300,000 of our finest young men--have taken our stand and we have done so because we believe we had to, because we believe we must.

But we do have better answers than they have any other place in the world.

We know they are fighting for a free Asia.

And most of us don't like to have somebody else do our fighting for us.

Our safest guide to what we do abroad is always take a good look at what we are doing at home.

This is an area of the country that I think is definitely moving forward and Denver is a city that is on the move.

We must let them know, and we must let the world know, that we are willing to bear the burden of a long struggle to defeat the Communist invasion of South Vietnam.

You will see, I think, why I think that domestic policy is a good guide to our foreign policy and what we should do abroad.

Sometime I get a plan or a program or an idea of my own.

Look at the economy.

Those were the problems that met me when I first went to Washington.

Until then, I ask on behalf of them, for all of them, all of our men in Vietnam, I ask you to give them all you can give them.

I don't know of another nation in the world that wouldn't trade places with us today.

I spoke of other problems that flow not alone from poverty, but from our prosperity.

When Lady Bird leaves town and I have no place to go, and I feel a little lonely–and one of my daughters gets married and the other one is in Hollywood--I call up Mike or Mary Ellen and say, 'Is it all right if I come on out for supper?'

So I would remind you that when I went to Washington 35 years ago I saw General MacArthur on a white horse chasing the veterans down Pennsylvania Avenue into the Anacostia Flats.

Willpower has been our secret all along--and it must be now.

I am, as President, carefully considering every move made.

We are out here to learn about testing new fuels, new materials, new approaches to old problems, new forms of public and private cooperation.

Our advantage, I think, then, is that we early discovered that social justice is very efficient.

And I do want to thank you for helping us to start it off right.

Lady Bird and I are very grateful to all of you good people of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, particularly of Denver, for coming out here to greet us today.