If I would leave no other thought with you this morning than this one, I would say that every person within the sound of my voice, and every employee of the Defense Department, in uniform and out, civilian or military, can take great pride in saying, 'I was a part of the Department of Defense in the 1960's.'
Remarks at the Department of Defense Cost Reduction Ceremony.
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Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.
Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.
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