KEN KEATING was an outstanding public servant and an old and valued friend.

His integrity, dedication, and devotion to duty made him a most valued public servant.

Let us all rededicate ourselves to this principle and to unstinting service to our country and to its people.

This is the First Family I know we all want to be a part of.

It has your weight wrong, too.

She is first of all a symbol of the United States, of our immense resources in materials and skilled manpower.

We cannot function well without each other.

The Nimitz is now a United States Ship.

Only the United States of America can make a machine like this.

Wherever the United States Ship Nimitz shows her flag, she will be seen as a solid symbol of United States strength, United States resolve.

He surrounded himself with the ablest men he could find and sought their advice, but he made his own decisions.

Decisions and conclusions may be questioned, but motivation and commitment are not.

Your spotlight is not mine; mine is not yours.

We are strong, we will continue to be strong, we will keep our commitments, and we will remain a great country.

Looking back on a period of my own life, one of the things of which I am the proudest is that I can say, 'I served under Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific.'

He is a true hero of America's progress in aviation.

I think a dialog is helpful.

Let me simply conclude by offering again my personal congratulations to all of these highly trained, completely dedicated men who have added another page of history in the area of aviation for the benefit of all mankind.

It is now my honor to present the 1974 Harmon International Aviation trophies to a half dozen new heroes.

I'm as concerned as you are that we strengthen our education system through a balanced program of local, State, and Federal funding.

There is a great deal of work to be done in the field of education.

I personally would like to see classroom teachers have a larger voice in Federal policy-making.

May I congratulate each one of you.

Without our brave American pilots, we would have witnessed, unfortunately, greater tragedy in the recent evacuation in Vietnam and in Cambodia.

Now, the 1974 Aviator's Trophy is awarded to a pilot who flew a C-5 airlift mission some 13,000 miles, round-trip, from the United States to Israel.