In my judgment it should do not only more, but very much more.
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Remarks at a Luncheon in New Orleans, Louisiana
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We need the development of men in the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the nation in time of war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peace.
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We know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone forever.





