US Presidency
1966

Earlier this year the Foreign Minister of Singapore said that if the nations of the world could learn to build a truly world civilization in the Pacific through cooperation and peaceful competition, then as our great President Theodore Roosevelt once remarked this may be the greatest of all human eras the Pacific era. As a Pacific power we must help achieve that outcome. Because it is a goal that is worthy of our American dreams and it is a goal that is worthy of the deeds of our brave men who are dying for us tonight. So I say to you and I pledge to all those who are counting on us: You can depend upon us, because all Americans will do our part