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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 4, 1966

Since this program began, more than sixteen million children have served as school safety patrol members.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 21, 1966

Because of the actions we take this year, our children, I think, will come of age in a modern society.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 17, 1965

We have taken up the age-old challenge of poverty and we don't intend to lose generations of our children to this enemy of the human race.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 1960

One of the things we have to do is make our children the best educated children in the world.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

A good education is the most valuable resource that you can pass on to your children.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 1960

The question we have to ask ourselves is: What kind of children, what kind of future men and women, are we raising in our new American homes?

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Apr 26, 1955

I think by August first, as I recall, they believe a hundred percent of the children from 1 to 9 will be vaccinated.

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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· Apr 10, 1955

I came out to welcome you to the White House grounds, to congratulate you on the weather you are having for the egg-rolling, and to hope that every youngster here has a wonderful time, and nobody gets lost.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Apr 18, 1950

It is morally inadmissible that political considerations or technical difficulties should be allowed to stand in the way of the reunion of these children with their parents.

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Franklin Roosevelt
@franklinroosevelt· Democratic · NY· Feb 5, 1942

Before May Day, Child Health Day, children over nine months of age be immunized against diphtheria and smallpox.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· May 26, 1932

Her passing will bring a sense of personal loss to thousands from whom her quiet devotion to every cause looking to the well-being of children and to the enrichment of the life of women had evoked their warm affection and their deep respect.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 21, 1932

To you more than anyone else we entrust the translation of Washington to our children.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jan 6, 1932

To have secured the immunization of more than half a million children is life saving work of the first magnitude.

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