And one thing you learn when you go in the service, particularly somebody who comes, as I did, from a pretty good educational background-and I was reasonably successful as a lawyer-and then you go in there, and, as I said a moment ago, the chiefs run the Navy.
Exchange of Remarks With Reporters at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island.
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