○  renunciation speech  ○

acy in this election year. we have no intention of widening this war. but the united states will never accept a fake solution to this long and arduous struggle and call it peace.

no one can foretell the precise terms of an eventual settlement. our objective in south vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. it has been to bring about a recognition in hanoi that its objective -- taking over the south by force -- could not be achieved. we think that peace can be based on the geneva accords of 1954, under political conditions that permit the south vietnamese -- all the south vietnamese -- to chart their course free of any outside domination or interference, from us or from anyone else.

so tonight, i reaffirm the pledge that we made at manila: that we are prepared to withdraw our forces from south vietnam as the other side withdraws its forces to the north, stops the infiltration, and the level of violence thus subsides. our goal of peace and self-determination in vietnam is directly related to the future of all of southeast asia, where much has happened to inspire confidence during the past 10 years. and we have done all that we knew how to do to contribute and to help build that confidence.

a number of its nations have shown what can be accomplished under conditions of security. since 1966, indonesia, the fifth largest nation in all the world, with a population of more than 100 million people, has had a government that’s dedicated to peace with its neighbors and improved conditions for its own people.

political and economic cooperation between

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