07/09/1981
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"The ability of this or any administration to succeed depends in no small degree upon the energy, the dedication, and the spirit of our nation's civil servants."
"Nations are more often than not remembered for their art and thought."
"The legislation will provide to all of our men and women in uniform a richly deserved average increase of 14.3 percent in basic pay."
"Gene and I actually go back well before last April, as his odyssey from Democrat to Republican is so strikingly parallel to my own."