12/11/1967
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"The country will need the help of scientists, including a large and strong contingent of physicists, if we are ever to be able to deal effectively with the central problems of the present and the futu..."
"They gave us the nuclear bomb--but they also started us on the course of peaceful nuclear power."
"The new ultraminiature devices which guide our spaceships and are giving us new medical tools are all the products of the last 10 years."
"I commend you for the role that you have played in the development of physics in this country."