34 will happen afterward is more of what happened before. Everyone with commonsense knows that. It is not blackmail. We have to have some judgment in these things. So it was that when we filed that voluminous Interoceanic Canal Conimiission report by Milton Eisenhower, Bob Anderson, and all the rest, 5 years and $22 million, and went all through the Colombia scenario, the Nicaragua, the Costa Rica, everything else as formulated on page 69, they said that the only feasible routes were Route 10 and Route 14 in the Republic of Panama. But our good Commander in Chief and President-he is a pretty good negotiator; he is the President. He came f rom Pl ains, and he beat all the rest of the crowd in the U.S. Senate, and he has been working, at it, for the interests- of this country. He said, "I don't wnt to make this treaty and then have some other country builcd a sea-level route through where we found was the only feasible place." Torrijos said, "Fine. I sign on that. You don't go anywhere else." Nicaragua by that time had found that even the rights in perpetuity were giving them trouble down there. Travel to some of these countries, I say to the Senator. Learn the feelings of the people. They did not even like the rights. When -we found we did not want it, then they brought the treaty up for recission. Ah, does not the Senator from South Carolina have some pleasures? February 17, the roll was called up yonder: Aiken, Allen, Aha, rescind those treaties-66 to 5. Who rescinded it? And now they talk this last summer and fall about the sea level. 'The distinguished Senator from Alabama is the one who rescinded it. They f orgeot the history. We are not granted the luxury of doing nothing. When Carter walked down that main s-treet, Pennsylvania Avenue, on Inaugural Day, the next day he met with some 11 Latin American Presidents. They said, "Look, Mr. President, President Johnson Promised us but didn't deliver. He w as all involved in the war in Vietnam. President Nixon, he gyot involved. President Ford spent 2 years trying to bring integrity back to government. Now you have a good 4-year administration. Vietnam, Watergate. all excuses,are behind. We want to see right done as we voted for what friends we have'and -what is best interest." We could not find a single friend on March 23, 1973. On that Particular date the United Nations Security Counil voted just that, to return the sovereignty of the Canal Zone to the Republic of Panama. And -we wonder what will happen with all these monkey-shine scenarios. So they came, and President Carter brought in the Pentag-on 'and Defense chiefs, in a very commendable fashion, I thou ht because lie talked about misgivings, ju-ist as the Senator from Souith Carolina. WTe'do not want to give up and give away. ITam part of that syndrome. I am not part of that "'steppingr down" in everthing. So what I am doingf in voting ratification -with these amendments on defense. I say to the Senator from Alabama, is not withdrawing from rb~rhts but advancingr interests-advancing rthie interests of the United States;. T firmly believe that with all the misgivings and all the changes I could0 makeand the Senator could make, that this is on balance a very, very g ood thing and a wonderful opportunihTv, and I 'hope it pans out, I might end up with egg ion my face. Torrijos is unnredictable. I think we can change a bad neighbor into a good neighbor.