I would like through all these gallant men to honor the men of the United States Air Force who are serving us in Vietnam and in that area.

So we dedicate this building today--not only to the man; not only to the Nation's service--but to learning in the service of all mankind.

I am proud to honor this request and do hereby extend to the Honorable Harry S Truman this expression of our profound and lasting gratitude and appreciation for his long years of devoted service to his country.

He declares his faith in the hopes of this nation, and in the people who try to faithfully serve it.

You are serving your country well, and with distinction.

No dollar sign can measure the priceless service they provide.

It has gained our confidence and support through years of devoted service to our Armed Forces personnel and to the victims of thousands of disasters.

We are all proud of the record that you have made and the way in which you have served as ambassadors of good will for our country.

Instead, we will try to be the very first among those who work to make it grow in strength and in service to peace.

A good many of our sons have fought there, lived there, in war and in peace.

If we serve them better now, they will serve their nation better when the burdens are theirs alone.

The morale would have to be awfully weak, serving in the service, to weaken it still further.

I left here in 1924, after three years of wonderful service among a wonderful people.

You bring to the men actually in the Service a sense of doing a wonderful thing--that their sacrifices, the performance of their duty, are important.

Seventy-five years this organization has been serving America; in a way, it has been sort of the conscience of America.

Few--men or women--have brought to heavy tasks and critical challenges such great spirit, integrity, and vision or such readiness to spend energy and high talent in the country's service.

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 all.

I believe that the greatest honor, the greatest distinction, that can come to any American is to feel that in his own niche he has been of service to the United States of America.