On Not Seeking Re-Election -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
今晚我想向大家谈论越南和东南亚的和平。
No other question so preoccupies our people.
没有其他问题如此让我们的人民如此关注。
No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world.
没有任何一个梦想能够如此吸引生活在世界这一地区的 2.5 亿人。
No other goal motivates American policy in Southeast Asia.
没有其他目标能够推动美国的东南亚政策。
For years, representatives of our Governments and others have traveled the world seeking to find a basis for peace talks.
多年来，我们各国政府和其他方面的代表走遍世界，寻求和平谈判的基础。
Since last September they have carried the offer that I made public at San Antonio.
自去年九月以来，他们就接受了我在圣安东尼奥公开的报价。
And that offer was this:
那个报价是这样的：
That the United States would stop its bombardment of North Vietnam when that would lead promptly to productive discussions -- and that we would assume that North Vietnam would not take military advantage of our restraint.
当美国停止对北越的轰炸时，这将立即导致富有成效的讨论，并且我们会假设北越不会利用我们的克制来获得军事优势。
Hanoi denounced this offer, both privately and publicly.
河内私下和公开谴责了这一提议。
Even while the search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the allies of South Vietnam.
即使在寻求和平的同时，北越也匆忙准备对南越人民、政府和盟友进行野蛮攻击。
Their attack -- during the Tet holidays -- failed to achieve its principal objectives.
他们在春节期间发动的袭击未能实现其主要目标。
It did not collapse the elected Government of South Vietnam or shatter its army -- as the Communists had hoped.
它并没有像共产党所希望的那样瓦解南越民选政府或粉碎其军队。
It did not produce a "general uprising" among the people of the cities, as they had predicted.
它并没有像他们所预测的那样在城市人民中引发“普遍起义”。
The Communists were unable to maintain control of any of the more than 30 cities that they attacked.
共产党人无法控制他们攻击的 30 多个城市中的任何一个。
And they took very heavy casualties.
他们伤亡非常惨重。
But they did compel the South Vietnamese and their allies to move certain forces from the countryside into the cities.
但他们确实迫使南越人和他们的盟友将某些部队从农村转移到城市。
They caused widespread disruption and suffering.
它们造成了广泛的破坏和痛苦。
Their attacks, and the battles that followed, made refugees of half a million human beings.
他们的袭击以及随后的战斗使五十万人沦为难民。
The Communists may renew their attack any day.
共产党人随时可能重新发起进攻。
They are, it appears, trying to make 1968 the year of decision in South Vietnam -- the year that brings, if not final victory or defeat, at least a turning point in the struggle.
他们似乎试图将 1968 年定为南越的决定年——这一年即使不是最终的胜利或失败，至少也会带来斗争的转折点。
This much is clear: If they do mount another round of heavy attacks, they will not succeed in destroying the fighting power of South Vietnam and its allies.
这是很清楚的：如果他们再次发动猛烈攻击，他们将无法成功摧毁南越及其盟友的战斗力。
But tragically, this is also clear: Many men -- on both sides of the struggle -- will be lost.
但可悲的是，这也是显而易见的：斗争双方的许多人都将迷失方向。
A nation that has already suffered 20 years of warfare will suffer once again.
一个已经经历了20年战争的国家将再次遭受苦难。
Armies on both sides will take new casualties.
双方军队都会有新的伤亡。
And the war will go on.
战争还将继续。
There is no need for this to be so.
没有必要这样。
There is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war.
没有必要推迟能够结束这场漫长而血腥的战争的谈判。
Tonight, I renew the offer I made last August: to stop the bombardment of North Vietnam.
今晚，我重申去年八月提出的建议：停止对北越的轰炸。
We ask that talks begin promptly, that they be serious talks on the substance of peace.
我们要求谈判立即开始，并就和平的实质内容进行认真的谈判。
We assume that during those talks Hanoi will not take advantage of our restraint.
我们认为，在这些会谈中，河内不会利用我们的克制。
We are prepared to move immediately toward peace through negotiations.
我们准备立即通过谈判走向和平。
So tonight, in the hope that this action will lead to early talks, I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict.
因此今晚，我将迈出第一步，以缓和冲突，希望这一行动能够促成早日举行会谈。
We are reducing -- substantially reducing -- the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once.
我们正在减少——大幅减少——目前的敌对行动，而且我们是单方面立即这样做的。
Tonight, I have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on North Vietnam, except in the area north of the demilitarized zone where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens allied forward positions and where the movements of their troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat.
今晚，我已命令我们的飞机和海军舰艇不要对北越发动攻击，但非军事区以北地区除外，那里敌人的持续集结直接威胁着盟军的前沿阵地，而且他们的部队和物资的调动显然与这种威胁有关。
The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's population, and most of its territory.
我们停止攻击的地区包括北越近 90% 的人口及其大部分领土。
Thus, there will be no attacks around the principal populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam.
因此，主要人口居住区或北越粮食产区周围不会发生袭击。
Even this very limited bombing of the North could come to an early end -- if our restraint is matched by restraint in Hanoi.
如果我们的克制与河内的克制相匹配，即使是对朝鲜的这种非常有限的轰炸也可能会提前结束。
But I cannot in good conscience stop all bombing so long as to do so would immediately and directly endanger the lives of our men and our allies.
但出于良心，我不能停止所有轰炸，因为这样做会立即直接危及我们的人员和盟友的生命。
Whether a complete bombing halt becomes possible in the future will be determined by events.
未来是否有可能完全停止轰炸将由事件决定。
Our purpose in this action is to bring about a reduction in the level of violence that now exists.
我们采取这一行动的目的是减少目前存在的暴力程度。
It is to save the lives of brave men --and to save the lives of innocent women and children.
这是为了拯救勇敢的人们的生命，也是为了拯救无辜妇女和儿童的生命。
It is to permit the contending forces to move closer to a political settlement.
这是为了让冲突各方更接近政治解决。
And tonight I call upon the United Kingdom and I call upon the Soviet Union -- as co-chairmen of the Geneva conferences, and as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- to do all they can to move from the unilateral act of de-escalation that I have just announced toward genuine peace in Southeast Asia.
今晚，我呼吁联合王国和苏联——作为日内瓦会议共同主席和联合国安理会常任理事国——尽其所能，摆脱我刚刚宣布的单方面降级行动，实现东南亚的真正和平。
Now, as in the past, the United States is ready to send its representatives to any forum, at any time, to discuss the means of bringing this ugly war to an end.
现在，与过去一样，美国随时准备派代表参加任何论坛，讨论结束这场丑陋战争的方法。
I am designating one of our most distinguished Americans, Ambassador Averell Harriman, as my personal representative for such talks.
我指定我们最杰出的美国人之一艾夫里尔·哈里曼大使作为我的此类会谈的个人代表。
In addition, I have asked Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, who returned from Moscow for consultation, to be available to join Ambassador Harriman at Geneva or any other suitable place -- just as soon as Hanoi agrees to a conference.
此外，我已要求从莫斯科返回进行磋商的卢埃林·汤普森大使在河内同意召开会议后立即前往日内瓦或任何其他合适的地点与哈里曼大使会合。
I call upon President Ho Chi Minh to respond positively, and favorably, to this new step toward peace.
我呼吁胡志明主席对这一迈向和平的新步骤作出积极和有利的回应。
But if peace does not come now through negotiations, it will come when Hanoi understands that our common resolve is unshakable, and our common strength is invincible.
但如果现在不能通过谈判实现和平，那么当河内认识到我们的共同决心是不可动摇的、我们的共同力量是不可战胜的时候，和平就会到来。
Tonight, we and the other allied nations are contributing 600,000 fighting men to assist 700,000 South Vietnamese troops in defending their little country.
今晚，我们和其他盟国将派遣60万战士协助70万南越军队保卫他们的小国家。
Our presence there has always rested on this basic belief: The main burden of preserving their freedom must be carried out by them -- by the South Vietnamese themselves.
我们在那里的存在始终基于这样一个基本信念：维护他们自由的主要责任必须由他们——南越人自己来承担。
We and our allies can only help to provide a shield behind which the people of South Vietnam can survive and can grow and develop.
我们和我们的盟友只能帮助为南越人民提供生存、成长和发展的盾牌。
On their efforts -- on their determinations and resourcefulness --the outcome will ultimately depend.
结果最终将取决于他们的努力、决心和足智多谋。
That small, beleaguered nation has suffered terrible punishment for more than 20 years.
这个陷入困境的小国二十多年来一直遭受着可怕的惩罚。
I pay tribute once again tonight to the great courage and the endurance of its people.
今晚我再次向其人民的巨大勇气和毅力致敬。
South Vietnam supports armed forces tonight of almost 700,000 men, and I call your attention to the fact that that is the equivalent of more than 10 million in our own population.
今晚，南越支持近 70 万人的武装部队，我提请大家注意，这相当于我们自己超过 1000 万的人口。
Its people maintain their firm determination to be free of domination by the North.
其人民坚定地决心摆脱北方的统治。
There has been substantial progress, I think, in building a durable government during these last three years.
我认为，过去三年在建立一个持久的政府方面取得了实质性进展。
The South Vietnam of 1965 could not have survived the enemy's Tet offensive of 1968.
1965 年的南越不可能在敌人 1968 年的春节攻势中幸存下来。
The elected government of South Vietnam survived that attack -- and is rapidly repairing the devastation that it wrought.
南越民选政府在那次袭击中幸存下来，并正在迅速修复其造成的破坏。
The South Vietnamese know that further efforts are going to be required to expand their own armed forces; to move back into the countryside as quickly as possible; to increase their taxes; to select the very best men that they have for civil and military responsibilities; to achieve a new unity within their constitutional government, and to include in the national effort all those groups who wish to preserve South Vietnam's control over its own destiny.
南越人知道需要进一步努力扩大自己的武装部队；尽快搬回农村；增加税收；选择最优秀的人选来承担民事和军事责任；在其宪政政府内实现新的团结，并将所有希望保持南越对其自身命运的控制的团体纳入国家努力。
Last week President Thieu ordered the mobilization of 135,000 additional South Vietnamese.
上周，越南总统阮文绍下令再动员 135,000 名南越人。
He plans to reach as soon as possible a total military strength of more than 800,000 men.
他计划尽快使总兵力达到80万以上。
To achieve this, the Government of South Vietnam started the drafting of 19-year-olds on March 1st.
为了实现这一目标，南越政府于 3 月 1 日开始征召 19 岁青少年。
On May 1st, the Government will begin the drafting of 18-year-olds.
5月1日，政府将开始征召18岁青少年。
Last month, 10,000 men volunteered for military service.
上个月，一万名男子自愿参军。
That was two and a half times the number of volunteers during the same month last year.
这是去年同月志愿者人数的两倍半。
Since the middle of January, more than 48,000 South Vietnamese have joined the armed forces, and nearly half of them volunteered to do so.
自1月中旬以来，已有超过48,000名南越人加入了武装部队，其中近一半是自愿加入的。
All men in the South Vietnamese armed forces have had their tours of duty extended for the duration of the war, and reserves are now being called up for immediate active duty.
南越武装部队中的所有士兵的服役期都已延长至战争期间，预备役人员现正被征召立即服役。
President Thieu told his people last week, and I quote:
阮文总统上周告诉他的人民，我引用：
We must make greater efforts, we must accept more sacrifices, because as I have said many times, this is our country.
我们必须做出更大的努力，我们必须接受更多的牺牲，因为正如我多次说过的，这是我们的国家。
The existence of our nation is at stake, and this is mainly a Vietnamese responsibility.
我们民族的生存受到威胁，这主要是越南人的责任。
He warned his people that a major national effort is required to root out corruption and incompetence at all levels of government.
他警告他的人民，需要全国范围内的重大努力来根除各级政府的腐败和无能。
We applaud this evidence of determination on the part of South Vietnam.
我们对南越的决心表示赞赏。
Our first priority will be to support their effort.
我们的首要任务是支持他们的努力。
We shall accelerate the re-equipment of South Vietnam's armed forces in order to meet the enemy's increased firepower.
我们要加快南越武装力量的重新装备，以应对敌人火力增强的情况。
And this will enable them progressively to undertake a larger share of combat operations against the Communist invaders.
这将使他们能够逐步承担更多针对共产党入侵者的战斗行动。
On many occasions I have told the American people that we would send to Vietnam those forces that are required to accomplish our mission there.
我曾多次告诉美国人民，我们将向越南派遣完成我们在那里使命所需的部队。
So with that as our guide we have previously authorized a force level of approximately 525,000.
因此，以此为指导，我们之前授权的兵力规模约为 525,000 人。
Some weeks ago to help meet the enemy's new offensive we sent to Vietnam about 11,000 additional Marine and airborne troops.
几周前，为了帮助应对敌人的新攻势，我们向越南增派了约 11,000 名海军陆战队和空降兵。
They were deployed by air in 48 hours on an emergency basis.
他们在 48 小时内紧急空运部署。
But the artillery and the tank and the aircraft and medical and other units that were needed to work with and support these infantry troops in combat could not then accompany them by air on that short notice.
但在战斗中与这些步兵部队合作和支持所需的炮兵、坦克、飞机、医疗和其他部队却无法在短时间内通过空中护送他们。
In order that these forces may reach maximum combat effectiveness, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have recommended to me that we should prepare to send during the next five months the support troops totaling approximately 13,500 men.
为了让这些部队发挥最大的战斗力，参谋长联席会议向我建议，我们应该准备在未来五个月内派遣总计约13500人的支援部队。
A portion of these men will be made available from our active forces.
其中一部分人将从我们的现役部队中抽调。
The balance will come from reserve component units, which will be called up for service.
余额将来自储备组成单位，这些单位将被征召服役。
The actions that we have taken since the beginning of the year to re-equip the South Vietnamese forces; to meet our responsibilities in Korea, as well as our responsibilities in Vietnam; to meet price increases and the cost of activating and deploying these reserve forces; to replace helicopters and provide the other military supplies we need, all of these actions are going to require additional expenditures.
我们自今年年初以来为重新装备南越军队而采取的行动；履行我们在韩国和越南的责任；以满足物价上涨以及激活和部署这些后备部队的成本；为了更换直升机并提供我们所需的其他军事物资，所有这些行动都将需要额外支出。
The tentative estimate of those additional expenditures is 2 1/2 billion dollars in this fiscal year and 2 billion, 600 million in the next fiscal year.
这些额外支出初步估计本财年为2.5亿美元，下一财年为20亿、6亿美元。
These projected increases in expenditures for our national security will bring into sharper focus the nation's need for immediate action, action to protect the prosperity of the American people and to protect the strength and the stability of our American dollar.
这些预计的国家安全支出增加将使我们更加关注国家需要立即采取行动，采取行动保护美国人民的繁荣并保护我们美元的实力和稳定。
On many occasions I have pointed out that without a tax bill or decreased expenditures, next year's deficit would again be around $20 billion.
我曾多次指出，如果没有税收法案或减少开支，明年的赤字将再次达到200亿美元左右。
I have emphasized the need to set strict priorities in our spending.
我强调有必要在我们的支出中确定严格的优先顺序。
I have stressed that failure to act -- and to act promptly and decisively -- would raise very strong doubts throughout the world about America's willingness to keep its financial house in order.
我已经强调，如果不采取行动，而且不采取迅速和果断的行动，将会引起全世界对美国维持其金融秩序的意愿的强烈怀疑。
Yet Congress has not acted.
但国会尚未采取行动。
And tonight we face the sharpest financial threat in the postwar era -- a threat to the dollar's role as the keystone of international trade and finance in the world.
今晚，我们面临着战后时代最严峻的金融威胁——对美元作为世界国际贸易和金融基石的作用的威胁。
Last week, at the monetary conference in Stockholm, the major industrial countries decided to take a big step toward creating a new international monetary asset that will strengthen the international monetary system.
上周，在斯德哥尔摩举行的货币会议上，主要工业国决定向创建新的国际货币资产迈出一大步，以加强国际货币体系。
And I'm very proud of the very able work done by Secretary Fowler and Chairman Martin of the Federal Reserve Board.
我对福勒部长和美联储主席马丁所做的出色工作感到非常自豪。
But to make this system work, the United States just must bring its balance of payments to -- or very close to -- equilibrium.
但要使这一体系发挥作用，美国必须使其国际收支达到或非常接近平衡。
We must have a responsible fiscal policy in this country.
我们国家必须制定负责任的财政政策。
The passage of a tax bill now, together with expenditure control that the Congress may desire and dictate, is absolutely necessary to protect this nation�s security, and to continue our prosperity, and to meet the needs of our people.
现在通过税收法案，加上国会可能希望和规定的支出控制，对于保护这个国家的安全、继续我们的繁荣、满足我们人民的需求是绝对必要的。
Now, what is at stake is seven years of unparalleled prosperity.
现在，危在旦夕的是七年无与伦比的繁荣。
In those seven years, the real income of the average American, after taxes, rose by almost 30 percent -- a gain as large as that of the entire preceding 19 years.
在那七年里，美国人平均税后实际收入增长了近 30%，增幅相当于之前整个 19 年的增幅。
So the steps that we must take to convince the world are exactly the steps that we must take to sustain our own economic strength here at home.
因此，我们必须采取的让世界相信的步骤正是我们为维持国内经济实力而必须采取的步骤。
In the past eight months, prices and interest rates have risen because of our inaction.
在过去的八个月里，由于我们的不作为，物价和利率上涨了。
We must therefore now do everything we can to move from debate to action, from talking to voting and there is, I believe -- I hope there is -- in both Houses of the Congress a growing sense of urgency that this situation just must be acted upon and must be corrected.
因此，我们现在必须尽我们所能，从辩论转向行动，从谈话转向投票，我相信——我希望——国会参众两院越来越有紧迫感，必须对这种情况采取行动，必须加以纠正。
My budget in January, we thought, was a tight one.
我们认为我一月份的预算很紧张。
It fully reflected our evaluation of most of the demanding needs of this nation.
它充分反映了我们对这个国家大部分苛刻需求的评估。
But in these budgetary matters, the President does not decide alone.
但在这些预算问题上，总统并不是单独决定的。
The Congress has the power, and the duty, to determine appropriations and taxes.
国会有权力和义务决定拨款和税收。
And the Congress is now considering our proposals, and they are considering reductions in the budget that we submitted.
国会现在正在考虑我们的提案，他们正在考虑削减我们提交的预算。
As part of a program of fiscal restraint that includes the tax surcharge, I shall approve appropriate reductions in the January budget when and if Congress so decides that that should be done.
作为包括税收附加在内的财政紧缩计划的一部分，如果国会决定这样做，我将批准适当削减一月份的预算。
One thing is unmistakably clear, however.
然而，有一件事是明确无误的。
Our deficit just must be reduced.
我们的赤字必须减少。
Failure to act could bring on conditions that would strike hardest at those people that all of us are trying so hard to help
如果不采取行动，可能会对我们所有人都竭尽全力帮助的人们造成最严重的打击
So these times call for prudence in this land of plenty.
因此，在这片富饶的土地上，这个时代需要谨慎行事。
And I believe that we have the character to provide it, and tonight I plead with the Congress and with the people to act promptly to serve the national interest and thereby serve all of our people.
我相信我们有能力提供它，今晚我恳求国会和人民迅速采取行动，为国家利益服务，从而为我们所有人民服务。
Now let me give you my estimate of the chances for peace -- the peace that will one day stop the bloodshed in South Vietnam; that will -- all the Vietnamese people [will] be permitted to rebuild and develop their land; that will permit us to turn more fully to our own tasks here at home.
现在让我对和平的机会做出我的估计——有一天，和平将结束南越的流血；这将——所有越南人民将被允许重建和开发他们的土地；这将使我们能够在国内更充分地开展我们自己的任务。
I cannot promise that the initiative that I have announced tonight will be completely successful in achieving peace any more than the 30 others that we have undertaken and agreed to in recent years.
我不能保证我今晚宣布的倡议将比我们近年来采取和同意的其他 30 项倡议更能完全成功地实现和平。
But it is our fervent hope that North Vietnam, after years of fighting that has left the issue unresolved, will now cease its efforts to achieve a military victory and will join with us in moving toward the peace table.
但我们热切希望北越在多年的战斗之后，问题仍未得到解决，现在停止其争取军事胜利的努力，并与我们一起走向和平谈判。
And there may come a time when South Vietnamese -- on both sides -- are able to work out a way to settle their own differences by free political choice rather than by war.
也许有一天，南越双方能够找到一种通过自由政治选择而不是战争来解决自身分歧的方法。
As Hanoi considers its course, it should be in no doubt of our intentions.
当河内考虑其路线时，我们的意图应该是毫无疑问的。
It must not miscalculate the pressures within our democracy in this election year.
它绝不能误判我们民主制度在这个选举年所面临的压力。
We have no intention of widening this war.
我们无意扩大这场战争。
But the United States will never accept a fake solution to this long and arduous struggle and call it peace.
但美国绝不会接受这场长期艰苦斗争的虚假解决方案并称其为和平。
No one can foretell the precise terms of an eventual settlement.
没有人能够预测最终和解的具体条款。
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy.
我们在南越的目标从来不是消灭敌人。
It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective -- taking over the South by force -- could not be achieved.
目的是让河内认识到其目标——以武力占领南方——无法实现。
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.
我们认为，和平可以建立在 1954 年《日内瓦协议》的基础上，在政治条件下，允许南越人——所有南越人——制定自己的路线，不受任何外部统治或干涉，无论是来自我们还是其他任何人。
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.
因此今晚，我重申我们在马尼拉做出的承诺：我们准备从南越撤军，而另一方则从南越撤军，停止渗透，从而平息暴力程度。
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.
我们在越南实现和平与自决的目标直接关系到整个东南亚的未来，过去十年里发生的许多事情激发了人们的信心。
And we have done all that we knew how to do to contribute and to help build that confidence.
我们已尽一切努力来做出贡献并帮助建立这种信心。
A number of its nations have shown what can be accomplished under conditions of security.
许多国家已经展示了在安全条件下可以取得什么成就。
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.
自 1966 年以来，印度尼西亚这个人口超过 1 亿的世界第五大国家，一直致力于与邻国实现和平并改善本国人民的生活条件。
Political and economic cooperation between nations has grown rapidly.
各国政治、经济合作迅速发展。
And I think every American can take a great deal of pride in the role that we have played in bringing this about in Southeast Asia.
我认为每个美国人都可以为我们在东南亚实现这一目标中所发挥的作用感到非常自豪。
We can rightly judge -- as responsible Southeast Asians themselves do -- that the progress of the past three years would have been far less likely, if not completely impossible, if America's sons and others had not made their stand in Vietnam.
我们可以正确地判断——正如负责任的东南亚人自己所做的那样——如果美国之子和其他国家没有在越南表明自己的立场，过去三年的进展即使不是完全不可能，也是不可能实现的。
At Johns Hopkins University about three years ago, I announced that the United States would take part in the great work of developing Southeast Asia, including the Mekong valley, for all the people of that region.
大约三年前，我在约翰·霍普金斯大学宣布，美国将参与为该地区所有人民开发包括湄公河谷在内的东南亚的伟大工作。
Our determination to help build a better land -- a better land for men on both sides of the present conflict -- has not diminished in the least.
我们帮助建设一个更美好的土地——为当前冲突双方的人们创造一个更美好的土地——的决心丝毫没有减弱。
Indeed, the ravages of war, I think, have made it more urgent than ever.
事实上，我认为，战争的破坏使得这一问题比以往任何时候都更加紧迫。
So I repeat on behalf of the United States again tonight what I said at Johns Hopkins -- that North Vietnam could take its place in this common effort just as soon as peace comes.
因此，今晚我再次代表美国重申我在约翰·霍普金斯大学所说的话——一旦和平到来，北越就可以在这项共同努力中占据一席之地。
Over time, a wider framework of peace and security in Southeast Asia may become possible.
随着时间的推移，东南亚更广泛的和平与安全框架可能成为可能。
The new cooperations of the nations of the area could be a foundation stone.
该地区国家的新合作可以成为基石。
Certainly friendship with the nations of such a Southeast Asia is what the United States seeks -- and that is all that the United States seeks.
当然，与这样一个东南亚国家的友谊就是美国所寻求的——而且这就是美国所寻求的全部。
One day, my fellow citizen, there will be peace in Southeast Asia.
我的同胞们，有一天，东南亚将会实现和平。
It will come because the people of Southeast Asia want it -- those whose armies are at war tonight; those who, though threatened, have thus far been spared.
它一定会到来，因为东南亚人民想要它——那些军队今晚正在交战的人们；那些想要它的人们。那些虽然受到威胁但迄今尚未幸免的人。
Peace will come because Asians were willing to work for it and to sacrifice for it -- and to die by the thousands for it.
和平将会到来，因为亚洲人愿意为之努力、牺牲——并为之牺牲成千上万的人。
But let it never be forgotten: peace will come also because America sent her sons to help secure it.
但永远不要忘记：和平也会到来，因为美国派出了她的儿子们来帮助确保和平。
It has not been easy -- far from it.
这并不容易——远非如此。
During the past four and a half years, it has been my fate and my responsibility to be Commander in Chief.
四年半来，担任总司令是我的命运，也是我的责任。
I have lived daily and nightly with the cost of this war.
我日日夜夜都承受着这场战争的代价。
I know the pain that it has inflicted.
我知道它所造成的痛苦。
I know perhaps better than anyone the misgivings that it has aroused.
我也许比任何人都更了解它所引起的疑虑。
And throughout this entire long period I have been sustained by a single principle: that what we are doing now in Vietnam is vital not only to the security of Southeast Asia, but it is vital to the security of every American.
在这整个漫长的时期里，我一直坚持一个原则：我们现在在越南所做的事情不仅对东南亚的安全至关重要，而且对每个美国人的安全也至关重要。
Surely, we have treaties which we must respect.
当然，我们有必须尊重的条约。
Surely, we have commitments that we are going to keep.
当然，我们有我们要遵守的承诺。
Resolutions of the Congress testify to the need to resist aggression in the world and in Southeast Asia.
大会的决议证明了抵抗世界和东南亚侵略的必要性。
But the heart of our involvement in South Vietnam under three different presidents, three separate Administrations, has always been America's own security.
但在三位不同总统、三位独立政府的领导下，我们参与南越事务的核心始终是美国自身的安全。
And the larger purpose of our involvement has always been to help the nations of Southeast Asia become independent, and stand alone, self-sustaining as members of a great world community, at peace with themselves, at peace with all others.
我们参与的更大目的一直是帮助东南亚国家作为一个伟大的国际社会的成员独立、独立、自给自足，与自己和平相处，与所有其他国家和平相处。
And with such a nation our country -- and the world -- will be far more secure than it is tonight.
有了这样一个国家，我们的国家——以及世界——将比今晚安全得多。
I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam.
我相信，由于美国在越南的所作所为，一个和平的亚洲已经离现实更近了。
I believe that the men who endure the dangers of battle there, fighting there for us tonight, are helping the entire world avoid far greater conflicts, far wider wars, far more destruction, than this one.
我相信那些冒着战斗危险、今晚为我们而战的人们正在帮助全世界避免比这一场更大的冲突、更广泛的战争和更多的破坏。
The peace that will bring them home someday will come.
总有一天，和平会带他们回家。
Tonight, I have offered the first in what I hope will be a series of mutual moves toward peace.
今晚，我提出了第一个建议，我希望这将是一系列走向和平的共同行动。
I pray that it will not be rejected by the leaders of North Vietnam.
我祈祷它不会被北越领导人拒绝。
I pray that they will accept it as a means by which the sacrifices of their own people may be ended.
我祈祷他们会接受它作为结束他们自己人民的牺牲的一种手段。
And I ask your help and your support, my fellow citizens, for this effort to reach across the battlefield toward an early peace.
我的同胞们，我请求你们的帮助和支持，让我们的努力跨越战场，早日实现和平。
Finally, my fellow Americans, let me say this: Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
最后，我的美国同胞们，让我这样说：那些给予很多的人，也要求很多。
I cannot say -- and no man could say -- that no more will be asked of us.
我不能说——也没有人能说——我们不会再被要求了。
Yet I believe that now, no less than when the decade began, this "generation of Americans" is willing to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival, and the success, of liberty." �
但我相信，现在，与本十年开始时一样，这一代“美国人”愿意“付出任何代价，承担任何负担，遇到任何困难，支持任何朋友，反对任何敌人，以确保自由的生存和成功。” �
Since those words were spoken by John F.
因为这些话是约翰·F.
Kennedy, the people of America have kept that compact with mankind's noblest cause.
肯尼迪先生，美国人民一直致力于人类最崇高的事业。
And we shall continue to keep it.
我们将继续保留它。
Yet, I believe that we must always be mindful of this one thing -- whatever the trials and the tests ahead, the ultimate strength of our country and our cause will lie, not in powerful weapons or infinite resources or boundless wealth, but will lie in the unity of our people.
但我认为，我们必须时刻牢记一件事，无论未来有什么样的考验和考验，我们国家和我们事业的最终力量不在于强大的武器，不在于无限的资源，不在于无限的财富，而在于我们人民的团结。
This I believe very deeply.
这点我深信不疑。
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party -- in that order -- always and only.
在我的整个公共生涯中，我始终遵循这样的个人理念：我是一个自由人、一个美国人、一个公务员和我的政党的成员——按照这个顺序——永远且唯一。
For 37 years in the service of our nation, first as a Congressman, as a Senator, and as Vice President, and now as your President, I have put the unity of the people first.
37年来，我为国家服务，首先担任国会议员、参议员、副总统，现在担任你们的总统，我把人民的团结放在第一位。
I have put it ahead of any divisive partisanship.
我已将其置于任何分裂的党派之争之上。
And in these times as in times before, it is true that a house divided against itself by the spirit of faction, of party, of region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand.
在这个时代和以前的时代一样，一个因派系、党派、地区、宗教、种族精神而分裂的家庭确实是无法站立的。
There is division in the American house now.
现在美国家庭出现了分裂。
There is divisiveness among us all tonight.
今晚我们大家之间存在分歧。
And holding the trust that is mine, as President of all the people, I cannot disregard the peril to the progress of the American people and the hope and the prospects of peace for all peoples.
作为全体人民的总统，我怀着对我的信任，不能无视美国人民进步面临的危险以及各国人民和平的希望和前景。
So, I would ask all Americans, whatever their personal interests or concern, to guard against divisiveness and all of its ugly consequences.
因此，我要求所有美国人，无论他们的个人利益或关切如何，都要警惕分裂及其所有丑陋的后果。
Fifty-two months and ten days ago, in a moment of tragedy and trauma, the duties of this office fell upon me.
五十二个月零十天前，在一个悲剧和创伤的时刻，这个办公室的职责落到了我的肩上。
I asked then for your help and God's, that we might continue America on its course, binding up our wounds, healing our history, moving forward in new unity to clear the American agenda and to keep the American commitment for all of our people.
当时，我请求你们和上帝的帮助，让我们继续美国的道路，包扎我们的伤口，治愈我们的历史，以新的团结向前迈进，以明确美国的议程，并履行美国对我们所有人民的承诺。
United we have kept that commitment.
我们团结一致，信守了这一承诺。
And united we have enlarged that commitment.
我们团结起来，扩大了这一承诺。
And 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.
在未来的任何时间里，我认为美国将成为一个更强大的国家，一个更公正的社会，一个充满更多机会和成就感的土地，因为这些年来我们大家共同取得了无与伦比的成就。
Our reward will come in the life of freedom and peace and hope that our children will enjoy through ages ahead.
我们的回报将是自由与和平的生活，并希望我们的孩子能够享受未来的岁月。
What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people.
我们所有人民团结起来所赢得的胜利，现在绝不能因我们任何人民之间的猜疑、不信任、自私和政治而消失。
And believing this, as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year.
正如我所相信的那样，我得出的结论是，我不应该允许总统卷入今年政治年度中正在发展的党派分歧。
With American sons in the fields 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 or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office -- the Presidency of your country.
美国儿子们在远方的田野里，美国的未来在国内面临着挑战，我们的希望和世界对和平的希望每天都在平衡之中，我认为我不应该把一个小时或一天的时间花在任何个人党派事业上，或者除了这个职位——贵国总统的令人敬畏的职责之外的任何职责上。
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
因此，我不会寻求、也不会接受我党的连任总统提名。
But let men everywhere know, however, that a strong and a confident and a vigilant America stands ready tonight to seek an honorable peace; and stands ready tonight to defend an honored cause, whatever the price, whatever the burden, whatever the sacrifice that duty may require.
但是，让世界各地的人们知道，一个强大、自信和警惕的美国今晚已准备好寻求光荣的和平；今晚准备好捍卫一项光荣的事业，无论付出什么代价，无论有什么负担，无论责任需要做出什么样的牺牲。
Thank you for listening.
感谢您的聆听。
Good night and God bless all of you.
晚安，愿上帝保佑你们所有人。
Book/CDs by Michael E.
Michael E. 的书籍/CD
Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) � JFK: Inaugural Address
艾登米勒 (Eidenmuller)，麦格劳-希尔 (McGraw-Hill) 出版 (2008) � 肯尼迪：就职演说
Also in this database : LBJ - "Let Us Continue"
此数据库中还有：LBJ - “让我们继续”
Original Audio Source : The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
原始音频来源：林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊总统图书馆
Original Video Source : The Miller Center
原始视频来源：米勒中心
Video Note : AI upscaled from 240p to 960p.
视频说明：AI 从 240p 升级到 960p。
Color and lighting adjusted.
颜色和灯光已调整。
Frame interpolated from 30fps to 60fps.
帧从 30 fps 插值到 60 fps。
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页面更新日期：25 年 10 月 15 日美国版权状态：文本、音频、图像 = American R hetoric.com 的财产。
� Copyright 2001-Present.
� 版权所有 2001 年至今。
American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
HTML transcription by Sally Jaster & Michael E.
HTML 转录由 Sally Jaster 和 Michael E.
Eidenmuller.
艾登米勒。