It also allows us to do honor to a great American.
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Letter to the Secretary of the Navy and Statement by the President on the Launching of the U.S.S. Sam Houston.
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But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
This has been the most successful campaign since 1945 and, as all of you know very well from your own experience, these things do not just happen; they are made to happen, and it has required a good deal of effort by your chairman and by all of you, and we are very grateful to you.
The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.





