08/22/1949
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"I think you will find that the blood of a 68-year-old man is not fit for the boys."
"I understand that you have managed to collect 8,000 pints of blood--sent 40,000 letters to the soldiers and people who are out of the country and in the field."
"I shall always treasure it, and I hope that I can live up to the sentiments expressed in the sentence which is on the plaque."
"I wish every one of us would get that same habit, because that would contribute greatly to the ease of continuing our defense program on the basis on which it ought to be."