May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.