I remembered the story of the young American captured by the Communists in Korea.

He is doing what brave men must do when they face tyranny.

So I thank you again for all the contributions of Kentucky.

I will never forget this long afternoon that I have spent in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.

No President, either before or since, was so bitterly fought by his enemies.

I am very proud to be here with you this morning.

The United States was born in strife and it was nurtured in hardship.

I am very happy to say that today you have standing in the United States Senate a man who carries on in the tradition of Lincoln, a man named Paul Douglas, who fights to see that all men are free and equal and live together as brothers.

I want to thank you again for your welcome.

But he never wavered from a conviction that all men deserve to be free and to live together as brothers.

They thought our men could not face the trials of a guerrilla war.

Never have the people of this country had more justification for pride, nor more reason to be grateful, than they have today because of men like you.

I particularly want to thank you for furnishing us the most able executive, I think, that we have in the White House--Mrs. Bess Clements Abell, a Kentucky girl, who walks with kings and prime ministers and never loses the common touch to…

Our brave fighting men have now turned the tide of battle.

So I am very proud of my Kentucky heritage.

Have we the same ability to endure until peace returns to Vietnam?

And I am here to assure you that his Government has not tired of the search for peace.

We have built the greatest country that mankind has ever known and we are going to work day and night to make it better all the time.