01/26/1949
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"My best wishes go with you in your new venture and in anything you undertake."
"You know that it is no mere politeness for me to say that I hate to see you go."
"Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White ..."
"Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy."