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The Holy Bible was the most important possession that our forebears placed aboard their ships as they embarked for the New World.

It is vital that no efforts be spared to keep boating safe as well as stimulating.

You have been a source of solace in time of war--and a force for enlightenment and progress in time of peace.

Whether the present effort is successful or not, our purpose of peace will be constant; we will continue to press on every door.

We hope the aggression will end; we must be prepared if it does not.

The Attorney General, and the designees specified by him, shall fulfill the obligations assumed by the United States pursuant to Article XXIV of the Treaty in the manner and form therein prescribed.

Thanks to you, millions of the underprivileged people in countries throughout the world have had the Word of God placed in their hands.

In order to ensure that Article XXIV of the Treaty of Friendship and General Relations between the United States and Spain can be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States

But until there is a response--and until the aggression ends--we must do all that is necessary to support our allies and our own fighting forces in Vietnam.

I accept it on behalf of the millions of Americans who support your great work and who believe in its goals.

I urge every American who uses our waterways to reexamine his boating habits during this Week and decide what he can do, individually and together with his countrymen, to reduce accidents and prevent the needless waste of lives on the…

I believe the Resolution is right, and I believe the course we follow is necessary.

I am deeply grateful to you for coming here to the White House this morning and presenting me with this beautiful Book.

You have been the main source of supply for the Holy Scriptures for the men and women throughout our Armed Forces.

This search for peace is no less significant by being relatively unseen and unheard in a world in which men talk more loudly of issues that seem to divide them than they do of common interests that can unite them.

We in our country stand in need of greater knowledge and understanding of the old and honored cultures to the south of us; and we likewise stand in readiness to help those in the other American Republics who wish to understand us better by…

In Class III-A shall be placed any registrant who has a child or children with whom he maintains a bona fide family relationship in their home and who is not a physician, dentist or veterinarian, or who is not in an allied specialist…

Though you build quietly, you build no less firmly the sure foundations of societies in which free men can truly know and enjoy the possibilities of cultural interchange in this hemisphere.