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  • , the brave-looking but scared parent, and later, the welcome relief at the end of an ordealo Occasionally we know the outcome is sad. The most intens e and poignant hopes of the human family are en­ trusted into your care here at Children's Hospital
  • ! This is a large - scale solution to one of the greatest needs of our city. I hope everyone of you read the Washington Post last Sunday which proposed we celebrate America•s bicentennial in 1976 by a great effort to achieve our goals for houGing, transportat
  • it on highest authority-­ directly from my daughter, Lynda -- that the way to make a hit on a campus is to arrive during class hours. I hope you got excused from your worst subject, or at least from a test you weren •t quite ready for. This hardy old colonial
  • , w. Willard Wirtz. I hope you will have a minute to visit with them before we leave. Your Governor John Connally and my husband started in politics in the depression year s and neither of them can forget the marks of poverty that scarred Texas
  • -- an opportunity to send to Congress a young man who traces his ancestory to chiefs of the Osage and Cherokee nations. I hope you will arrange matters so young Doug Martin 1s descendants will also trace their ancestory to a United States Congressman. Over
  • - - Jane Freeman; the wife of our SecrEtary of Labor V{. Willar d Wirtz - - Jane Wirtz. I hope you will have a chance to shake hands with them before we leave. I'm glad my first visit in We stern Kentucky is in Henderson. This is a city that has achieved
  • . It shows that Head Start tackles the problem at the most crucial age -­ when the difference for good or ill can be made, when the most can be done, when the investment in time and money brings the most telling results. ldeally, we would hope that Head Start
  • women are here to tell us -- the way they see the problern frorn where they work. - 1­ MORE . • -'" After we hear from them, 1 hope any of you who wish will add your own constructive observations, or examples which point the way to rnaking our
  • million citizens who are at work to enhance their hometowns. This is a significant commitment to the quality of living. I hope these cleanup campaigns will give impc-t us to further constructive activities and inspire citizens in other towns a:id cities
  • Association. So, now -- fGr the work she bas d one in strengthening the bonds of faith and hope in the he;l.rts of her countrymen, it becomes my most pleasant duty, as National Hon0rary Heart 5.unday Chairman t('I recognize Mrs. William C. Langley as the most
  • like this Inter-American Cen ter wr.ich oîfer the hope of highl) i nformative ••• highly relevant••• highly helpful c la ssrooms for children of many lands. Thank you. # # # #
  • and presidio of La Bahia. There are now over 600 similar landmark plaques, gracing sites of noble memory all over the United States. I hope this number will double and double again inthe next few yea1·s. America is a young nation, and we are just beginning
  • , sbe started the china collection - - gathering pieces together from past ad ministrations. 1 hope you will see that co!lection in the China Room. Also, I love the border pattern of goldenrod and corn ehe selected for her own china. It speaks
  • seeds, a."l.d sowing them along roadsides andin one particular pasture at the ranch. The effect is glorious in the spring a.nd 1 look forward to doing more. Someday, if your paths lead you that way, I hope to show you the tapestry of bluebonnets
  • find them. I hope we can encourage them and give them o pportuni ty. more , . The experiment has worked. The stars in their eyes matcbed tbe stars in their new flag. They brought tbeir genius as well as tbeir hearts. Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie
  • and dauntless enthusiasm of Secretary Udall who thfok ~.. such things can be done, and continuous and devoted stewardship of the Park Service. The nature poet William Cullen Bryant wrote many years ago, ''The groves were God 1 s first temples." I hope
  • wiU begin a trip across the country. As we travel these next fe ·‫ וו‬daya, 1 hope we will see ways in which Ameri ca haa b e come a b etter place for our citizens to lead better and fuller lives. Wbat we will see is not pcrfection; wbat we wiU see
  • , leBs than three years after your pioneers entered this valley, the embodiment of your dreams and hopes, a place where you can acquire t b.e tools to strengthen this region a nd thi.:J nation. The spirit of the pioneers who opened up this beautiful
  • years in the Vice Presidency - ­ plus what a wife can only describe as a lot of determination, energy and devotion to his job -- these will all help solve the problems that face our country. I am proud of this record. it. ###### -2 ­ I hope y ou
  • in Washington who care '!\>out the people of the South, their problems and their hopes. And it takes citizens here at home with a vision of the future. We face many problems together. Peace is one and economic prosperity is another. We have reached good
  • . It is a record I am proud of, I believe you approve of and I hope you will want to continue. ####
  • Yarborough , and all the others in the Democratic column . I believe they have kept us on a steady course of moving ahead meeting problems and not retreating from them . and I hope you want it to continue. I entrus t that decision to your hands. I am proud
  • and the Empire. Vienna is the handiwork of the Hapsburgs , and Florence of the Medici. Can a g r eat democratic societ y generate the concerted drive to plan, and havin:g planned to execute great projects of beauty? I not only hope so - - I am certain that it can
  • the vi.llage green, the courthouse square, the mali, the most beloved place in town. - 3 ­ MORE Wberever you go, whatever you atudy, 1 hope that many of you will aeriouely consider ma.king America•s beauty a full-time vocation. Seldom have 1 had a keener
  • their life work . Henry Adams said: "A teacher affects eternity; be can never tell where his influence stops. 11 Let's hope that i nfluence never stops because the educated person is more in demand today than ever before. Not only do we need technicians
  • ^and ju st as I hoped it w ould be, ■ ' ■ I sp en t the e a r ly ■morning w ith L iz on m y few w ord s to say at the J ew ish lu n ch eon and going o v er r e p o r ts and fa c ts and fig u r e s for m y in te r v ie w w ith M e r le S e c r e s t
  • years been its director. MORE , , Who doesn't thdll over the miracle of Helen Keller of Tuscumbia whose indomitable spirit has given hope and encourage­ ment to handicapped people throughout the world. L-1. your State Capital you have a g reat
  • , was an experience we shall n ever forget. For me, it wa s the beginning of seeing how politics can bring tangible results. I always hope that the very best of our people will go into politics, and I am sure that some of our best are women. It was for this r eason
  • flowers bloom. so does hope -- and hope is the precious, indispensable ingredient without which the war on po verty can never be won. In our city areas. where people work, we may achieve a semblance of efficiency in a g reat, ur.relieved complex
  • for the na tion. I hope it wil.l be protected from bumper-to-bumper traffic, , a nd rema in always a place of peace. For one of the d ominant facts of modern timec i s tha t Americans , who, trad itioually , have bcen clo se to the l a nd, now live and work
  • to prepare to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you irnpoverish yourself if you forget the errand." I believe
  • . In many u ays, it still is. For from the small to"l-ms of America wi th their courthouse s o_u a r es come rnuch of the s pirit and hope o f our country. Therc are, acro s::o this lan d , 17, 000 t01ms about the s ize of thi s on e . To di s cover ~-j
  • , and others because all heritage-minded Americane know your deeds. 1 hoped we could gather thie afternoon „ . in a house where history is treasu!"ed and history is made -- to sbare a bit of fellowship and compare notes on tbe pa.ce of preservation. So much has
  • a.nti-litter efforts during the past four years• I am convinced we must find packaging that wiU disintegrate or is worth re ­ deeming. A number of packaging concerns are represented on the Board of Keep America Beautiful, and 1 hope son‫ז‬e day soon
  • of these freshmen was asked to give a tribute at a dinner in Washington. I would like to read from that tribute now, and in doing so, to dedicate this statue to all new members of the 89th Congress and all future Congresses in hopes that -- like Sam Rayburn
  • is poor means that he needs the help of others -- that he probably lacks the education and often the hopefulness to lift himself unaided. Changing his lot is a decidedly practical matter for everyone. Millions of the impoverished place a heavy drag
  • of the areas we have staked out. That is why I hope you who are the key to the knowledge of nature will continue to open new door a to us. I was so g lad to hear about several park systems which hired 14 and 16 year old boys this summer in a Youth Workreation
  • , but also the totality of human experience and the sum of human hope. Rather possessively, and in a proprietary fashion, I want to see my University excel in this new Age of the University. I am delighted to be able to say, what you all know so well
  • not exist, however remote, where you are without the r evolution of rising expectations of women. I think women want to help their countries find the way to peace more than ever before. And that is why I hope we in this country ..... you
  • are engaged in an attack on the slums, instead of our fellow man; that our hands are free to pick up the plowshare, is evidence that we live in an envied hour in historyo Our battlecry of hope is that while 30 years a g o a President could stand up and say one