We know that we must find some way, somehow, a path to peaceful settlement.

For all of my public life, when I am in need of light I turn to the REA.

You are needed to help shape that future.

That is why the hopes and the concern of this entire hemisphere are, on this Sabbath-Sunday, focused on the Dominican Republic.

I have just come from a meeting with the leaders of both parties in the Congress which was held in the Cabinet Room in the White House.

We hope to see a government freely chosen by the will of all the people.

I know that no American serviceman wants to kill anyone.

But we do not intend to be buried.

This is such a time for the American nations.

Our forces, American forces, were ordered in immediately to protect American lives.

The American nations cannot, must not, and will not permit the establishment of another Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.

In this situation hesitation and vacillation could mean death for many of our people, as well as many of the citizens of other lands.

Unless the bill becomes law today, on this last day of April, the lives of these 8 million across the Nation would be very adversely affected.

This means there will be no delayed checks for any of our citizens.

I want to express the great appreciation to those Members of the Congress who gave their support and their cooperation on this action in this deficiency bill.

I am this afternoon signing into law the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act of 1965, appropriating $2,227,000,000 which has just been approved by the Congress.

There is a special urgency for signing this measure immediately.

We were founded as a Nation upon an ideal.