I look at you young people--the smartest, the healthiest, the most prosperous, the best dressed, with more creature comforts and more advantages than your fathers or your grandfathers ever dreamed of, and yet you are the most straightforward and you are the most concerned generation that I have ever seen in all of my life.
Remarks to Student Delegates Attending the 1968 Senate Youth Program.
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