American science, medicine, and engineering is second to none -- and we intend to keep it that way.

In fact: Federal spending this year will be lower in relation to gross national product than at any time since 1951.

Mr. President, the Philippines have also been in the forefront of the fight against external challenge to the freedom that we so cherish.

Those ideals which inspired so many people to reach for independence are not Western values or Asian values.

We Americans live in a diversified society.

They are abiding human values.

Peace in our troubled world is the hope of all men of good will.

Mr. President, the success of your dynamic democracy shows to all that freedom is the wave of the future for Asia and for all the nations that rim the vast Pacific.

John F. Kennedy is no longer with us.

Our mutual devotion to them will be everlasting.

We are proud that you have returned tonight under happier circumstances on a mission of friendship.

Our eyes are on the future but our hearts will never forget the past.

Unfortunately, these legitimate national aspirations are still denied to many peoples.

Every positive step taken to settle international disputes peacefully—or to eliminate their causes before they reach crisis proportions—brings us all closer to the goal we share.

A part of the soul of America remains forever on Bataan and Corregidor.

None can know just how long the fight for freedom in southeast Asia will take, but we of the United States are resolved not to falter or to grow weary in the struggle.

The worth of those values is eternal.

The United States enjoys friendly relations with nearly all nations represented at your conference.