The President's News Conference
11/19/1952
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And that is your job, and your business.
A universal training program would eradicate that situation, and I hope that you gentlemen, my friends in the National Guard, will put every...
It is not the martinets that make an army work, it's the morale that the leaders put into the men that makes an army work.
I think that the backbone of the defense of this country is in its civilian components.