The treaty we proclaim will lay a new foundation of prosperity for Canadians and Americans, for your West and for ours.

We can never forget that the rich soil of American freedom has been washed with Canadian blood, shed in a common effort against foreign enemies.

I think I will be guided by an old Chinese proverb: 'When you enter a country, inquire as to what is forbidden; when you cross a boundary, ask about the customs.'

We will not let our might make the United States muscle-bound.

But I also tell you that in the years to come my country will spare no effort to achieve a lasting peace for all of us.

We have never rattled our rockets or come carelessly to the edge of war.

It is appropriate that this first trip should be to Canada.

I believe that future generations will have cause for gratitude that two great democracies--Canada and the United States--shared the most generous continent which God has ever granted to man.

The responsibility for the control of U.S. nuclear weapons rests solely with the President.

But we greet you not only as a great Canadian today.

This trip to Vancouver is the first that I have taken outside of my own country since I became President last November.

Well, I have made careful inquiries and I will eat the salmon and praise the B.C. Lions.

A single nuclear weapon can kill more than 526,000.

My country is grateful for the spacious spirit with which this generous design was conceived and with the way it was carried out, even down to the last quarter.

We are at once neighbors and friends, and partners and allies, and I am very glad my first stop is Vancouver.

There is hereby reserved the right to modify or terminate any or all of the provisions of this order.

We must learn to live with each other or we will destroy each other.

We will always stand with you in the defense of freedom.

Total war makes no sense ....

A full-scale nuclear exchange between the East and the West would kill almost 300 million people around the world.

I recognize, as I know you recognize, that we cannot be the leader of the world and the follower in space.

I trust when all is said and done, that America will not only be the home of the free and the land of the brave, but will be the nation that is first in space, due primarily to what you people are doing here.

I invite all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America do hereby designate September 17, 1964 as von Steuben Day.

I want to commend each of you.