Lyndon B Iolmson 1963 1964 attack I consider this resort to force as being Contrary to the principles of the United Nations Charter and I deem it to fully justify the exercise of the right of self-defense as was done by the United States of America I have instructed the Brazilian representative to the Security Council to act there in aemrdance with the above indications and to express furthermore our hope that the North Viet-Namese authorities will modify their attitude and that all governments Sept 7 562 will endeavor to prevent the aggravation of tensions in Southeast Asia In expressing to Your Excellency my solidarity I do so with the certainty that Brazil and the United States are bound together in the same desire for peace and in the same feeling of repulsion for violent solutions to international disputes With the assurance of my high regard and esteem I-lusruna ro nu ALI-mean CASTELO BMNCO 562 Remarks in Cadillac Square Detroit September 7 1964 Mr Baroonr Governor and Mrs Romney Mayor Cavanaglz Senator Hart Senator McNamara Congressman Staebler Walter Reurlzer Governor Swainson Secretary Williams my good friends in the Michigan congressional delegation my fellowI country- men ' This is a great day in a historic place Here and today we begin to move toward new years of achievement for America Sixteen years ago an American President came here and he promised that America would enter a new period of hope That President was Harry S Truman You gave him support and he gave you that hope Four years ago another great American stood where I stand today and he said Give me your hand and this country can move again That man was John Fitzgerald Kennedy You reached out your hand and America began to move I have come here today to pledge that if all Americans will stand united we will keep moving This country is not going to turn its back on the future This country is not going to turn away from the upward course of prosperity or from the urgent hopes of peace This country is not going to turn away from the needs of the jobless and the hungry the poor and the oppressed This country is not going to turn from unity to hostility from understanding to hate So today I have come here in Cadillac Square to call for national unity I plead for brotherhood among men and understand- ing among nations This is not just a slogan It is not based on empty hopes or upon remote dreams It flows from the facts of life in 1964 I have traveled to eVery section of this country I have talked to people in every walk of life And I have found that most of the American people are united There are of course issues which stir passion and con icting interests But most Americans have the same hopes for them- selves and their children They have the same desires for themselves and their coun- try They know that for the most part we no longer struggle among ourselves for a larger share of limited abundance We labor instead to increase the total abun- dance of us all Responsible business knows that fair wages are essential to its prosperity Re- sponsible labor knows that fair pro ts are essential to rising employment Farmers and city dwellers bankers and laborers know that by strengthening each group we strengthen the Nation by pursuing the 1049 562 Sept 7 growth of all we advance the welfare of each And all of us know that we have a mortal stake in the peace of this world And that the only real test the only test that really counts is what is good for America And what is good for America is good for all of us I want to talk brie y today about three of the goals which are good for America which re ect the common purpose of most Ameri- cans which are the basis of unity in our country These are the goal of prosperity the goal of justice and the goal of peace First the goal of prosperity This is the 43d month of the greatest peacetime pros- perity in the history of all the United States The last 4 years in Michigan alone unem- ployment dropped from 10 2 percent to 5 3 percent the average weekly earnings for manufacturing workers went up 23 percent a new tax cut will raise personal income by billion and create 90 000 new jobs And what is true for Michigan is true for other parts of America As long as I am President I will lead this country toward in- creased prosperity We will continue until every man has a job and until every family has a decent income And this is what most Americans want The second part of our common purpose is justice Justice is a country where eVery man has an equal chance to use his talents to pursue his desires and to provide for his family seek to give every American of every race and color and without regard to how he spells his name his full constitutional rights under our Constitution and under the law of the land We seek to conquer the conditions which condemn millions to hopeless poverty We seek to nd a job for every man who wants to work We seek to care for the 1050 Public Papers of the Presidents old through medical care under social secu- rity the jobless with increased unemploy- ment compensation the oppressed with min- imum wage protection And this is what we think most Americans want Third among our common goals is peace Peace is more than the absence of aggres- sion It is the creation of a world com- munity in which every nation can follow its own course without fear of its neighbors In that pursuit we have developed a three- fold policy First we have built a military strength greater than the world has evor known before Second in Cuba and in the waters around Viet-Nam we proved that we would stand rm in the defense of freedom And every- where we have worked to extend the domain of liberty Third we patiently labored to open new avenues to peace The result of these efforts since 96 is our world of 1964 In this world in which we live today no nation new or old has gone Communist since Cuba went in 1959 In this world the solid unity of commu- nism has begun to crack We have worked to help the nations of Eastern Europe move toward independence This is their peo- ple s goal and this is our people's continuing resolve In this world the influence and the pres- tige of freedom is on the rise Hands of friendship have replaced the clenched lists of angry mobs In this world the strength of freedom is greater and the prospects for peace are brighter It is not enough I think just to want peace or to talk peace or to hope for peace We must constantly work for peace And I want you to know that today your Govern- ment is working for peace We must heed the command to follow Lyndon B ofmsom 1963 1964 after the things that make for peace -That is why I as a Congressman worked to help pass the Marshall plan -That is why as a Senator during the Eisenhower administration I went to the United Nations at President Eisenhower s reqUest to urge and to invite all nations of the world to join the United States in the peaceful exploration of outer space -And that is why as Vice President of the United States I worked long and hard for the treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere We slowed down the deadly poisoning of the air we breathe and the milk that our children drink We do not want every mother to live in fear that her baby may be born crippled or deformed And we too must remember that we organized the Peace Corps which started the spirit of America and carried it to remote villages on every continent of the world And also that is why as President I ordered a cutback of unnecessary nuclear production -And that is why I will continue to sup- port every realistic measure that will bring the world closer to peace without increasing the danger to freedom Yes it is men that make peace Modern weapons are not like any other In the rst nuclear exchange 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Rus- sians would all be dead And when it was over our great cities would be in ashes our elds would be barren our industry would be destroyed and our American dreams would have vanished As long as I am President I will bend every effort to make sure that that day never comes I am not the rst President to speak here in Cadillac Square and I do not intend to be the last Make no mistake There is no such thing as a conventional nuclear weapon Sept 7 562 For 19 peril- lled years no nation has loosed the atom against anotherpolitical decision of the highest order And it would lead us down an un- certain path of blows and counterblows whose outcome none may know No Presi- dent of the United States of America can divest himself of the responsibility for such a decision Any man who shares control of such enormous power must remember that He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city These common purposes prosperity justice and peace are the foundation of American unity Our future is almost upon us Man has never lived in a more exciting time The world is changing before our eyes Either we will move to meet these changes or they will overwhelm us On the one hand is opportunity of shining promise on the other is a power to destroy the world Those na- tions or individuals who seek today to di- vide us who preach strife and dissension and hate and fear and smear strike at our hopes and strike at the hopes of all the people of the world When I was young I often walked out after supper and looked up at the scattered Texas sky As a boy on those still nights I wondered what those heavens had seen what they would see and what they might bring to me The world has turned many times since then but still in the evening I sometimes walk out and look across the great Capital City where I live and I dream the same dreams and I ask the same questions Inst as you do I sit and think of today s events and tomorrow s problems I feel glad in my family and concern for my children It is then that I remember the men who 1051 562 Sept 7 captured my native soil from the wilderness They endured much so that others might have much Their dream was for the chil- dren mine too is for the child even now struggling toward birth What will the observing skies say of the world that we have built for him I want all the ages of man to yield him their promise the child will nd all knowl- edge open to him the growing boy will shape his spirit in a house of God and his ways in the house of his family The young man will nd reward for his work and feel pride in the product of his skills The man will nd leisure and occasion for the closeness of family and an oppor- tunity for the enrichment of life The citizen will enrich the Nation sharing its rule walking its streets adding his views to its counsel secure always from the unjust and the arbitrary power of his fellows The least among us will nd contentment and the best among us will nd greatness and all of us will respect the dignity of the one and admire the achievements of the other At the end of the journey he will look back and say have done all that a man could do built all shared all experienced all And then people shall say to people group to group man to man There on this earth as in the eyes of God walks my brother Well this is my dream It is not the Public Papers of the President grand vision of a powerful and feared nation It concerns the simple wants of people But this is what America is really all about All the rest the power and the wealth the life of freedom and the hopes for peace the treasured past and the un- certain future all of this will stand or fall on this Reality rarely matches dream but only dreams give nobility to purpose This is the star that I hope to follow This is the star which I know that most of you at some time havo seen and which I rst glimpsed many many years ago one night out in the West United we stand divided we fall So today I say to these thousands assembled here whose only concern is what is best for their country let us bring the capitalist the manager the worker and the Government to one table to share in the fruits of all of our dreams and all of our work And let s leave for our children as we enjoy for our- selves the greatest country that any man has ever known NOTE The President spoke just before noon in Cadillac Square in Detroit In his opening words he referred to Al Barbour president Wayne County George W Romney Governor of Michi- gan and Mn Romney I P Cavanagh mayor of Detroit Philip A Hart and Pat McNamara U S Senators from Michigan Neil Staebler U S Repre- sentative from Michigan Walter Reuther president of the United Auto Workers John B Swainson fr rmer Governor of Michigan and G Mennen Wil- liams Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs 563 The President's News Conference of September 9 1964 THE PRESIDENT I have a few announcements here Here is one we agreed on at a meeting that I roughed over 1052 At a regular bipartisan meeting of the congressional leadership called by the Presi- dent Ambassador Taylor gave a detailed report of recent political 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