Suggested Farewell Message 
Dear Mr. President: 
As I prepare to leave cffice, I want not only to say good-bye but also to express the hope that through cooperation based on the spi~it of friend­ship and mutual respect the peoples of both our nations will continue to make progress toward peace and a better life. 
As the enclosed photographs cf our recent lunar flight suggest, this shrinking globe is rapidly becoming a single neighborhood. Even the most distant nations now live closer to each other than villagers in a single nation did only a few centuries ago. Countries are learning that they must work together for common ends if any are to survive and prosper in the new world of interdependence which science and technology are helping to create. 
We have made some progress to this end in recent years. New forms of 
international cooperation are evident in many areas. I believe that this 
progress will continue and that one day an international conununity will come 
into being which is solidly grounded in conunon interest. 
Despite my retirement from the Presidency, my interest in Czechoslo~~ 
1llĄ-hope that its future will brighte ~nd my friendship for its people will 
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peoples of our countries share. 
Sincerely, 

Lyndon B. Johnson 
His Excellency, 
-Oeneral Ludvik Svoboda, 
President of the Czechoslovak 
Socialist Republic, 
Prague.