continue america on its course, binding up our winds, healing our history, moving forward in new unity to clear the american agenda and to keep the american commitment for all of our people. united we have kept that commitment, and united we have enlarged that commitment. through all time to come, i think america will be a stronger nation. a more just society. a land of greater opportunity and fulfillment because of what we have all done together in these years of unparalleled achievement. our reward will come in the life of freedom and peace and hope that our children will enjoy through ages ahead. what we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness. politics among any of our people. and believing this as i do, i have concluded that i shouldn't permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. with americans' sons in the field far away, with america's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day. i do not believe that i should devote an hour of our day, of my time, to my personal partisan cau