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 Is This The Best Course
 Let me conclude that I believe that the course we are taking is the best one for our county. I am g-uided by the words of Lyndon Johnson, who said of the Panama situation:
 These changes are necessary not because of failure but because of success; not because of backwardness but because of progress. The age before us is an age of larger, faster ships. It is an age of friendly partnership among the nations cencerned with the traffic between the oceans. This new age requires new arrangements.
 The strength of our American system is that we have always tried to understand and meet the needs of the future. We have been at our best when we have been both bold and prudent in moving forward.
 President Johnson set forth the challenge for all of us, that is to act with courage and with foresight. As men and women entrusted with the burden of making decisions for the future., we must utilize all the abilitie-s at our command and act to protect and defend the interests of our great land. I plan to do no less.