The one thing I need from you more than anything else, aside from your leadership in your local communities, is to take your eyes and your ears, and your head and your heart, and your heels, and try to develop for me the most outstanding women in this country that could be available to lead the people of this country.
Remarks on the Status of Women in America.
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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.
Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.
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.
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