While I am not a prophet, I would like to venture this prediction tonight:
And it is no wonder, because after all, the one thing that this trip symbolizes and establishes is that we are Pacific neighbors.
For we have learned again that we are Pacific neighbors, with common interests, with a common destiny.
We seek no eternal hostility.
I spent yesterday as the guest of your Prime Minister at his summer residence in Bang Saen.
The American people support these goals.
The very name of your great nation means, in my own language, 'land of the free.'
More importantly, I came away with respect and admiration for the people of Thailand who gave us such a warm welcome when we were here.
We already feel, in the night that we have spent here, that we are at home.
I believe that in the lifetime of men now living, the human race will emerge into the sunlit uplands of peace and freedom.
What we achieve together can give reality to our common dream: a worldwide human fraternity, based on mutual understanding and respect--and ...