US Presidency
1968

Part of your responsibility is simply to understand the consequences of that fact the consequences of your own acts, and part of that responsibility, I think, is to try- as very best we all can to draw the attention of our people to the real business of society in our system -finding and securing peace in the world at home and abroad. For all that you have done and that you are doing and that you will do to this end, I thank you and I commend you. I pray that the message of peace that I tried so hard to convey last night will be accepted in good faith by the leaders of North Vietnam. I pray that one time soon, the evening news show will have, not another battle in the scarred hills of Vietnam, but will show men entering a room to talk about peace. That is the event that I think the American people are yearning and longing to see.