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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I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.
As you know, the American Ambassador--the United States Embassy has made six protests to the Soviet Government in the last 48 hours.
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