In accepting this award this morning, I want to declare once again that so long as I am in public office, I am going to do everything within my power and my capability to prevent us from falling behind.
Remarks Upon Accepting the Robert H. Goddard Trophy.
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Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.
The reason I think so much of him is because the whole United States is full of Trumans.
Men like this have seen our country through every crisis that has ever confronted our Nation.
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