We are here to avoid tragedy.

A great counselor of mine said to me, 'You can take a good law and give it bad administration and it won't work.'

This is a strong but simple law.

I intend to leave tomorrow for Texas.

Marine biologists tell us that the oceans could support an annual catch of 400 to 500 million pounds of fish and that is a very important source of animal protein.

What I saw were hundreds of thousands of unique individuals, starting life well, clearly on the road to a very proud and very responsible citizenship.

I am very glad to be back here visiting again in a State that I helped to bring into being.

Their leaders, along with your leaders, are willing to go anywhere, meet with any government at any time, and enter into any honorable agreement that will settle our differences at the conference table instead of on the battlefield.

We expressed our great desire at any time, any place, to transfer our difficulties from the battlefield to the conference room.

I am on American soil again, for the first time in 17 days.

President Johnson expressed his deepest thanks to President Park and to all citizens of the Republic of Korea for the overwhelming warmth of their reception and for the many courtesies extended to him during his visit.

Many Americans at that time could not locate Korea on the map.

President Park and President Johnson reaffirmed the strong ties of friendship traditionally existing between the Republic of Korea and the United States and their determination to continue the closest cooperation and consultation to secure…

President Johnson assured President Park that the United States has no plan to reduce the present level of United States forces in Korea, and would continue to support Korean armed forces at levels adequate to ensure Korea's security.

Finally, I want him to record the astonishing economic and social progress that you have made working together in unity here in Korea:--record harvests in the last 3 years, and rapid industrialization have given Korea a growth rate of 8…

Difficult days lie ahead of us in Vietnam, until the Communists change their minds about fighting.

It is right, therefore, that I should end my trip through Asia here in Korea, where the four goals of freedom adopted at Manila are on their way to achievement.

You are on the rim of a new era.

Today the world has turned its eyes to Asia and begun to understand the goals, the problems, and the energy of this region where almost two-thirds of humanity live.

No Commander in Chief in the history of the American Nation ever had a better equipped, a more competent, or a more devoted Armed Forces than you have now.

In 1942 Dutch Harbor was the target of an aggressor's bombs.

Yet we stood firm behind the principle that the people of Korea--no less than the people of France or Italy--had a right to self-determination.

Yet all we have ever heard from the other side is that they renew their voice of hostility.

I hope that a great historian will soon record the story: of how an ancient nation has emerged from the shadows of its colonial past and from the tragedy of war to become one of the youngest and the most vigorous constitutional democracies…

So I leave today with a deep sense of confidence in the future of Asia and the Pacific.