It is not a very good way to repay you for all your political services by giving you one of our most difficult assignments, but I really feel that in this case you and your own personal qualities, plus your experience, plus the sensitivity and the importance of the job at hand, have all joined together, like the three rivers around Pittsburgh, and the country will benefit.
Remarks at the Swearing In of David L. Lawrence as Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in...
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And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.
I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.
No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.
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