On the recordSeptember 10, 1981
The true test of civilization, it's been said, is not the census or the size of cities or the crops, but the kind of people the country turns out.
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presidency.ucsb.eduThe true test of civilization, it's been said, is not the census or the size of cities or the crops, but the kind of people the country turns out.
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