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Show IS A PLEASURE FOR ME TO IT PARTICIPATE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION'S ANNUAL PUBLIC RELATIONS DINNER MEETING. THAT I IF THERE IS ONE THING EVER HAVE LE RNED PUBLIC YEARS, IN MY IT IS THE VALUE OF GOOD PUBLIC RELATIONS--WHICH SIMPLY • ".MEANS RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE BOTH s, INDIVIDUALLY AND EN MASSE. ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE ASPECTS OF MY POSITION AS STATE TREASURER, AND BEFORE THAT, AS TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION, HAS BEEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET SO MANY PEOPLE AND TO VISIT SO MANY INTERESTING COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THESE UNITED STATES. AND IN THAT TIME I HAVE FOUND THAT, REGARDLESS OF GEOGRAPHY AND REGARDLESS OF ECONOMIC CONDITION - · OR OTHER DIFFERENCES PRETTY MUCH THE SAME PEOPLE ARE IN THEIR BASIC VIEWPOINTS AND THEIR BASIC NEEDS AND DESIRES. I SOMETIMES THAT FACT BECOMES OVERLOOKED. AS WE READ THE NEWSPAPERS AND HEA-R 'THE TELEV I S ION I COMMENTATORS TELL US OF ALL THE WORLD/S TROUBLES, IT'S EASY TO GET THE IMPRESSION THAT LIFE IS JUST ONE CALAMITY AFTER ANOTHER. LETS NOT BUT FORGET THAT IN ORDER TO QUALIFY AS NEWS AN EVENT USUALLY HAS TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE DAY-T@-DAY ROUTINE--IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT DISTURBS, ALARMS OR OTHERWISE DISRUPTS. - IN OTHER WORDS MOST G. PEOPLE, MOST OF THE TIME ARE LEADING QUIET, PEACEFUL, REASONABLY HAPPY LIVES, WHICH DO NOT RATE NEWS MENTION BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT THE HNORMAL' STATE OF AFFAIRS. --NOW GOING BACK TO MY CORRESPONDENCE LAST MARCH WITH MRS. SWEM ABOUT MY INVITATION TO THIS OCCASION TONIGHT, SHE ASKED ME TO REMINISCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS ABOUT THOSE MEMORABLE EIGHT YEARS WHEN I HAD THE HONOR OF SERVING . AS TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES I AM ALWAYS HAPPY TO HAVE SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE I CONSIDER· . DWIGHT EISENHOWER TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF AMERICA/S GREAT MEN, A FIGURE OF GREAT STATURE TO MATCH THE HISTORIC CHALLENGES THAT HE MET J, THROUGHOUT HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER MRS. SWEM ALSO ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SOMETHING OF OUR OPERATIONS AT THE STATE TREASURY IN SACRAMENTO, BUT I WILL SAVE THAT FOR A LITTLE LATER. HERE IIAD /I I KE , LIB REMARKS ABOUT ETC. FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES-- THEN PICK UP TREASURY SPEECH CARDS |
