Have we the same commitment?

Goodby and God bless each of you.

We Americans have never run from danger.

When America grows afraid and loses its commitment to freedom, that is the day that America will begin to die.

I suspect at this very hour someone yonder in Hanoi is now busy revising those estimates.

For my part, I think I know.

I want to thank each of you for the contribution you are making to helping all of us make this the greatest Nation in all the world.

I don't think the day will come when America will refuse to be true to its word and keep its commitments.

I don't think the day will ever come when the American people will desert those who stand for them on far-off battlefields in the fight for freedom.

The morale of the American fighting man is as high today as it was in 1944, when the 101st Airborne threw back the enemy at Bastogne.

I believe that it is an unwavering faith.

So our honored and respected men of the 101st, we have come here today to salute you.

So such is the spirit of the American soldier this afternoon.

I am coming back.

We have given our blood and our treasure so that others might have the same opportunities.

Mrs. Johnson, Luci, and I, the distinguished Governors, the many able, patriotic Members of Congress from both parties, are grateful to you for your warmth, for your generosity, for your hospitality.

We grew and we prospered because we weren't afraid of frontiers.

We in America have much to be thankful for, much to be grateful for.