Remarks to Students at Fairview Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri
03/25/1987
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We have done our best, and we pray it has been enough.
Public service is a public trust.
We're counting on you to help secure for our children the brightest future the world has ever known.
I think the other way would have sent out a wrong signal that we were patsies.