The absence of self-acclaim, the refusal to become commercialized, which has marked the conduct of this sincere and genuine exemplar of fine and noble virtues, has endeared him to everyone.

It isn't possible for the President to make public comment on letters of that kind.

I hope we may have good weather and that the press anticipates the enjoyment of it as much as I do.

I am expecting to go down to review the Fleet, as the press already knows.

I haven't seen the Goldsmith open letter which is said to have been addressed to me and which has been published in Canada.

Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the presence of our military forces, nevertheless it is the…

It is because of our belief in these principles that we wish to see all the world relieved from strife and conflict and brought under the humanizing influence of a reign of law.

If we desire to be an influence in order and law, tranquility and good will in the world, we must be determined to make sufficient sacrifices to live by these precepts at home.

We have robbed no people of their independence, we have laid on no country the hand of oppression.

It is to those had that will, who showed that determination, that we today do honor.

While the foreign relations of this country are becoming more and more important, and constitute a field to which it will be necessary for our Government and our people to give much more attention than is now realized, yet it is our…

America has a just right to satisfaction and pride in the personnel and purpose of its Army and Navy.