I would like to take this opportunity to express my very deep gratitude and appreciation for what the Advertising Council has done over the years.

I think there is a need also for us as leaders in this country to talk about the good things.

It is an urgent need for the country to mobilize, and I quote here, 'the most powerful and creative industrial nation that ever existed on this Earth'.

We can meet adversity, that we will be successful.

We have a distressed economy.

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act has made supplementary unemployment compensation available to experienced workers who have exhausted unemployment insurance benefits.

He has rendered an unbelievable service on behalf of his people, his State, and his country.

One of the reasons America is strong, free, and secure as a nation is because of men like Eddie Hebert in the Congress of the United States.

Eddie's best monument will be his achievements, his own record as a public servant.

I compliment all of you in this great part of our country for showing the superb judgment in seeing to it that you are represented by Eddie Hebert.

Lousiana is a better State and America is a better country because of our friend Eddie Hebert.

May Eddie's wonderful sense of humor stay with us, too, lightening the burdens when things seem heaviest and reminding us all that even in serious times, we must never lose our gift of laughter.

There are few men in the United States Congress that I have known longer or respected more than the man that all of us honor here on this occasion today.

His expert and incisive commentary on the major issues of his time was his trademark.

An outstanding public servant, a man who never lost the reporter's instinct for news, Franklin Little has left a great void in his own profession and in the State and Nation he served with such distinction.

MRS. FORD and I join with the people of New York State and with all Americans who cherish a free and vigorous press in mourning the passing of Franklin Rockefeller Little.

In John Robson I think we will have a Chairman who will do an outstanding job.

Congratulations again, John.