I WANT TO EXPRESS my great appreciation
for you coming here today and I am most impressed in hearing the litany
of places - Japan, Korea, the Congo.
It is a wonderful thing, what
you are doing. Some of you will be away for 5 years. You have a great tradition
in your denomination of freedom and you can't have religious freedom without
political freedom. The people of this country are strongly behind you and
any help that we can give should be made known.
As I said in the State of the
Union Message - one of the great ironies is that the Communists have been
able to secure great devotion to their program and too often our people
are identified with a devotion to material things. You are helping to change
this.