Freedom's defense could not be in better hands.
I can only accept it with genuine reluctance and sympathy.
I just don’t think that is the way to play it.
The imprint of your devoted and dynamic leadership goes deep beyond the day.
My concern for your health and knowledge of the physical stress that further duty would impose had prepared me for your decision.
Does that make it clear to anybody and everybody, including all the foreign press that may want to pick it up?
You leave it surer of purpose, richer in assets, and stronger in resolve to match challenge with achievement.
I would hope that that statement could end the gossip and the rumors about General Westmoreland's future.
I know the credibility problem. I cannot say to you that he will never leave.
We look for them every day.
Lady Bird and I ask God's blessing on that.