Then, when you had gone to a well-earned retirement--you had taken up another congenial occupation--I called you back to Washington, once again asking you to undertake for your country what may have been the most formidable task of your career.
Remarks Upon Presenting the National Security Medal to Vice Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr.
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I will ask Mr. Christian to keep in touch with you and if there are any other announcements during our stay here, he will relay them to you as well as keep you informed of any other developments.
Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.
In the coming months, I am going to do everything within my power to try to bring that about and to make that possible.
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