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My First Act As President Is A Prayer. I Ask You To Bow Your Heads: Heavenly Father, We Bow Our Heads And Thank You For Your Love. Accept Our Thanks For The Peace That Yields This Day And The Shared Faith That Makes Its Continuance Likely. Make Us Strong To Do Your Work, Willing To Head And Hear Your Will, And Write On Our Hearts These Words: 'use Power To Help People." For We Know That We Are Given Power, Not To Advance Our Own Purposes, Nor To Make A Great Show In The World, Nor A Name. There Is But One Just Use Of Power, And It Is To Serve People. Help Us To Remember It Lord, Amen.

-George H. W. Bush

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George H. W. Bush

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My First Act As President Is A Prayer. I Ask You To Bow Your Heads: Heavenly Father, We Bow Our Heads And Thank You For Your Love. Accept Our Thanks For The Peace That Yields This Day And The Shared Faith That Makes Its Continuance Likely. Make Us Strong To Do Your Work, Willing To Head And Hear Your Will, And Write On Our Hearts These Words: 'use Power To Help People." For We Know That We Are Given Power, Not To Advance Our Own Purposes, Nor To Make A Great Show In The World, Nor A Name. There Is But One Just Use Of Power, And It Is To Serve People. Help Us To Remember It Lord, Amen.

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If We Have Learned Anything In The Past Quarter Century, It Is That We Cannot Federalize Virtue.

There Are Truckloads Of Broccoli At This Very Minute Descending On Washington. My Family Is Divided. For The Broccoli Vote Out There: Barbara Loves Broccoli. She Has Tried To Make Me Eat It. She Eats It All The Time Herself. So She Can Go Out And Meet The Caravan Of Broccoli That's Coming In.

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