We are a Government, indeed a generation, of revolutionary transformation.
It seeks only to prevent aggression, and its pledge to that purpose is firm.
It seeks to impose no alliance or alignment.
It seeks no colonial presence.
The United States seeks no bases.
So this afternoon I extend to these two friends and these allies of ours a most warm welcome to our country.
And that is why it is vitally important to every American that we stop the Communists in South Vietnam.
Why do these Vietnamese fight on?
Our stand must be as firm as ever.
I welcome these two brave leaders of the Vietnamese Republic and their colleagues to American soil.
We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us, or that subjugation by an arme...