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. . . Learning Never Ends, And As We Enter The Next Century, It Will Be More And More Important For All Americans To Be Lifelong Learners. . . . Every One Of Us Can Contribute In Some Way To A Better-educated America.

And Who Knows? Somewhere Out In This Audience May Even Be Someone Who Will One Day Follow In My Footsteps, And Preside Over The White House As The President's Spouse. I Wish Him Well!

I'm A Great Believer That The Most Important Years Are The Sort Of Early Years But The Preschool Years And Then Into The First And Second Grades. If You Get A Good Base In The First And Second Grade And You Can Read, You Can Do Anything.

If More People Could Read, Write, And Comprehend, We Could Be Much Closer To Solving So Many Of The Other Problems Our Country Faces Today.

You Have To Love Your Children Unselfishly. That's Hard. But It's The Only Way.