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On the recordJune 3, 2004
I consider that a high privilege because I got to work with wonderful young folks like you every day. ... You will finish the work that others have started. And always remember that. I think it is good to remember that there are new ideas from time to time, and we have breakthroughs, but the greatest contributions are made by those who are willing to keep their hands on the steady plow, as we say in rural North Carolina, and you plow a straight furrow. In other words, you do the right thing. You were made out of the right stuff, and we are awful proud of you.
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Emerson Etheridge
Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee
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Addressing students during a commencement speech.

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