Our concerns must not be confined to the utilitarian requirements of transportation alone.

The right to clean air--and the duty not to befoul it.

The spiraling cost of land acquisitions by the Federal Government, particularly for water resource and recreational purposes, is a matter of increasing concern.

The years of experience that you have devoted to public life in Minnesota, and in the United States Senate in a position of leadership and as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, have certainly served you in good stead in your…

I have been heartened by your understanding of the viewpoint of the countries you visited.

In the future, it may affect their duration.

No person, or company or government has a right in this day and age to pollute, to abuse resources, or to waste our common heritage.

I also want to thank Jack Valenti and Ambassador Hand, Mr. Connell, and Mr. Rielly, and others who contributed so much.

We think you performed a most useful and constructive service.

I know the people are eager and anxious to hear from you.

So let me assure you and my fellow Americans tonight that I will do everything in my power to defend both.

The people must have this right—the South Vietnamese people—and no one else.

We seek to create that climate, at home and abroad, where unlettered men can learn, where deprived children can grow, where hopeless millions can be inspired to change the terms of their existence for the better.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights-or keep them.

In designing the system for the Nation's Capital, I want you to search worldwide for concepts and ideas that can be used to make this system attractive as well as useful.

The strength of America can never be sapped by discussion.

We will build freedom while we fight, and we will seek peace every day by every honorable means.

As a mark of respect to the memory of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, it is hereby ordered, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Proclamation 3044 of March 1, 1954, that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown…