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Message to the Conference of State Civil Defense Directors.

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It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

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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.

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I can't imagine anything more dangerous than to end this program.

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