So, now, we must work together to assure that the prosperity and social progress of the past five and a half years continue.

For our part, I can assure you, Mr. Chairman, that just as we shall never shirk our responsibilities, so shall we never fail in our efforts to find a secure and just peace.

Gaping needs must be met in health, in education, in job opportunities, in housing.

And not a single one of those needs can be fully met until we rebuild our mass transportation systems.

I am going to cut all federal expenditures to the fullest extent consistent with the well-being of our people.

The alternative is disaster.

We can make that progress within the framework of a free economy.

We Americans, who want to reduce the distance between friends, believe that no man comes from so far off that he cannot find a welcome among us.

Inflation imposes a cruel and unjust tax on all the people.

We both place high value on the just resolution of international differences and on the search for universal peace.

A compassionately and mature people will not make the poor carry the burden of fighting inflation.

The day of peace will eventually come—a day when all nations will be able to live in their own way, free from threat and fear.

It is a very great pleasure for me to welcome you here to the White House today.

You cannot write our history without devoting many chapters to the pony express, the stagecoach, the railroad, the automobile, the airplane.

Therefore, except for the $600 million, every dollar spent on Great Society programs was secured by reducing or eliminating outmoded programs.

This occasion has a special significance, for it is the first visit to the United States by a Chief of State of Burma.

So today we welcomed you as a guest in our country.

And we Americans, who want to reduce the distance between friends, believe that no man comes from so far off that he cannot find a welcome among us.