Political Quotes

“In today's Washington Post, on page 23, is a brief description of the historic work that has been performed by this laboratory. I say with a great sense of humility I was asked to speak because of the fact that I am a graduate of a school that was conducted at this laboratory during World War II. Young men, and to my recollection, a few young women, were trained as radio/radar technicians. It was a 15-month course. Barely a third of those who started this course ever completed it because it was 6 days and 6 nights, and those were not unusual hours during wartime, and then for the period after the cessation of the war in Europe and the Pacific, the momentum kept up, but they turned out remarkably trained young people, and I was privileged to be one of them. I remember on the day of graduation--and these are the basic remarks that I deliver today--an admiral stood up and addressed us, and he said, ``You understand how to maintain,'' which means fix, ``every piece of equipment in the United States Navy through which an electron flows.'' Thousands of young persons went through that program, then reported to the fleet, whether it was a ship or submarine or an airplane, and they were immediately able to go in and examine the most complicated pieces of equipment and repair them.”