Power Confuses Itself With Virtue And Tends

Of All The Joint Ventures In Which We Might Engage, The Most Productive, In My View, Is Educational Exchange. I Have Always Had Great Difficulty-since The Initiation Of The Fulbright Scholarships In 1946-in Trying To Find The Words That Would Persuasively Explain That Educational Exchange Is Not Merely One Of Those Nice But Marginal Activities In Which We Engage In International Affairs, But Rather, From The Standpoint Of Future World Peace And Order, Probably The Most Important And Potentially Rewarding Of Our Foreign-policy Activities.

We Must Dare To Think 'unthinkable' Thoughts. We Must Learn To Explore All The Options And Possibilities That Confront Us In A Complex And Rapidly Changing World.

It Is Not Our Affluence, Or Our Plumbing, Or Our Clogged Freeways That Grip The Imagination Of Others. Rather, It Is The Values Upon Which Our System Is Built. These Values Imply Our Adherence Not Only To Liberty And Individual Freedom, But Also To International Peace, Law And Order, And Constructive Social Purpose. When We Depart From These Values, We Do So At Our Peril.

There Is Nothing Obscure About The Objectives Of Educational Exchange. Its Purpose Is To Acquaint Americans With The World As It Is And To Acquaint Students And Scholars From Many Lands With America As It Is-not As We Wish It Were Or As We Might Wish Foreigners To See It, But Exactly As It Is-which By My Reckoning Is An "image" Of Which No American Need Be Ashamed.

We Are Trying To Remake Vietnamese Society, A Task Which Certainly Cannot Be Accomplished By Force And Which Probably Cannot Be Accomplished By Any Means Available To Outsiders.