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There Has Been A Vigorous Acceleration Of Health, Resource And Education Programs Designed To Advance The Role Of The American Indian In Our Society. Last Fall, For Example, 91 Percent Of The Indian Children Between The Ages Of 6 And 18 On Reservations Were Enrolled In School. This Is A Rise Of 12 Percent Since 1953.

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There Has Been A Vigorous Acceleration Of Health, Resource And Education Programs Designed To Advance The Role Of The American Indian In Our Society. Last Fall, For Example, 91 Percent Of The Indian Children Between The Ages Of 6 And 18 On Reservations Were Enrolled In School. This Is A Rise Of 12 Percent Since 1953.

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I Know Only One Method Of Operation: To Be As Honest With Others As I Am With Myself.

As Quickly As You Start Spending Federal Money In Large Amounts, It Looks Like Free Money.

Here In America We Are Descended In Blood And In Spirit From Revolutionists And Rebels - Men And Women Who Dare To Dissent From Accepted Doctrine. As Their Heirs, May We Never Confuse Honest Dissent With Disloyal Subversion.

More Than Any Single Action By The Government Since The End Of The War, This One Would Change The Face Of America With Straightaways, Cloverleaf Turns, Bridges, And Elongated Parkways. Its Impact On The American Economy-the Jobs It Would Produce In Manufacturing And Construction, The Rural Areas It Would Open Up-was Beyond Calculation.

We Merely Want To Live In Peace With All The World, To Trade With Them, To Commune With Them, To Learn From Their Culture As They May Learn From Ours, So That The Products Of Our Toil May Be Used For Our Schools And Our Roads And Our Churches And Not For Guns And Planes And Tanks And Ships Of War.

I Had Been Conscious A Feeling Of Depression And So I Voiced To [secretary Of War Stimson] My Grave Misgivings, First On The Basis Of My Belief That Japan Was Already Defeated And That Dropping The Bomb Was Completely Unnecessary, And Secondly Because I Thought That Our Country Should Avoid Shocking World Opinion By The Use Of A Weapon Whose Employment Was, I Thought, No Longer Mandatory As A Measure To Save American Lives. It Was My Belief That Japan Was, At This Very Moment, Seeking A Way To Surrender With A Minimum Loss Of 'face.'

When We Get To The Point, As We One Day Will, That Both Sides Know That In Any Outbreak Of General Hostilities, Regardless Of The Element Of Surprise, Destruction Will Be Both Reciprocal And Complete, Possibly We Will Have Sense Enough To Meet At The Conference Table With The Understanding That The Era Of Armaments Has Ended And The Human Race Must Conform Its Actions To This Truth Or Die.

We Have The Disgrace Of Racial Discrimination, Or We Have Prejudice Against People Because Of Their Religion. We Have Not Had The Courage To Uproot These Things, Although We Know They Are Wrong.

In Preparing For Battle I Have Always Found That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Indispensable.

Against The Dark Background Of The Atomic Bomb, The United States Does Not Wish Merely To Present Strength, But Also The Desire And The Hope For Peace.

You Have A Row Of Dominoes Set Up; You Knock Over The First One, And What Will Happen To The Last One Is That It Will Go Over Very Quickly.

If A Political Party Does Not Have Its Foundation In The Determination To Advance A Cause That Is Right And That Is Moral, Then It Is Not A Political Party; It Is Merely A Conspiracy To Seize Power.

There Is No Such Thing As Human Superiority.

So Long As We Govern Our Nation By The Letter And Spirit Of The Bill Of Rights, We Can Be Sure That Our Nation Will Grow In Strength And Wisdom And Freedom.

How Far Have We Come In Man's Long Pilgrimage From Darkness Toward Light? Are We Nearing The Light-a Day Of Freedom And Of Peace For All Mankind? Or Are The Shadows Of Another Night Closing In Upon Us?

I Thought It Completely Absurd To Mention My Name In The Same Breath As The Presidency.

Our Pleasures Were Simple - They Included Survival.

The Older I Get The More Wisdom I Find In The Ancient Rule Of Taking First Things First. A Process Which Often Reduces The Most Complex Human Problem To A Manageable Proportion.

Inspirational Life

We Are Not Saints. We Know We Make Mistakes, But At Least Our Heart Is With The Right Cause.

There Is Very Little That Our Government Or Any Government Can Do To Plant The Seeds Of International Understanding In The Hearts And Minds Of People Around The World. If People By The Millions Can Reach Out Their Hands In Friendship And Communicate Directly Warmth, Personal Interest And Respect, It Will Be A Real Beginning In The Struggle For A Peaceful World.

But I Believe This: By And Large, The United States Ought To Be Able To Choose For Its President Anybody That It Wants, Regardless Of The Number Of Terms He Has Served. That Is What I Believe. Now, Some People Have Said, "you Let Him Get Enough Power And This Will Lead Toward A One-party Government." That, I Don't Believe. I Have Got The Utmost Faith In The Long-term Common Sense Of The American People. Therefore, I Don't Think There Should Be Any Inhibitions Other Than Those That Were In The 35-year Age Limit And So On. I Think That Was Enough, Myself.

You Can't Have This Kind Of War. There Just Aren't Enough Bulldozers To Scrape The Bodies Off The Streets.

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