Each of you has exercised the highest form of citizenship that any citizen can perform.
They will require great sacrifice, patience, understanding, and tolerance from each of us.
Grave problems threaten us all.
I wish I could tell you that what you have fought for, peace in the world, is just around the corner, but there will be some long and diffic...
Your President salutes you, and your Nation salutes you.
Abroad, half of the world's people struggle daily against hunger, disease, and poverty.
And finally, in Vietnam, the tide of battle has turned.
Today, the light of that great charter guides us yet.
But let us here tonight dedicate this Christmas tree with hope and great confidence.
In the United States, we have made more progress in human rights in the past 6 years than we have made in all of the previous 100 years.
And, if the goal of true equality is still far down the road, the barriers before that goal are falling every day.