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Eisenhower
@eisenhower· Republican · KS· May 22, 1955

I could think of no greater service that this Committee over the years has contributed to the United States than to bring to each--not only the handicapped people themselves, but to all of us--the fact that opportunity does truly belong to…

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

We must open wider the doors of opportunity to our million and a half farm families with extremely low incomes for their own well-being and for the good of our country and all our people.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 8, 1942

I think it is a pretty good idea to strike while the iron's hot, and the Lord knows it's hot now.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jan 22, 1931

This promotion in itself is not so material as the opportunity it affords to indicate the feeling of his many associates and friends in the War Department and my own feeling over what we have always considered was an inadvertent but yet a…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jan 15, 1931

He is equally to be congratulated upon the opportunity of such a profitable and congenial association with yourself in your increasingly important field of activity.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 2, 1929

Additional thousands of farm boys and girls may be given greater opportunities for development and achievement.

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Bill Taft
@billtaft· Republican · OH· Nov 1, 1909

We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are.

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