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thank very much Leon for those very very

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kind remarks you know up when asked

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welts one rumor it's not true that on

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that last flight NASA would not let me

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make a spacewalk because they were

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afraid of my age I might wander off

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someplace didn't happen he I think we

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should hate NASA happy birthday nobody

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said that yet tonight happy birthday a

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NASA 50th some of us here this evening

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were at the beginning of the days of

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NASA had been preceded by the old NACA

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the national advisory committee for

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aeronautics the alert will hear from a

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little bit later of course I think even

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predates me with the Association there

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because he was flying for NACA at

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Cleveland and out in the desert out of

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Dryden Space Center Bryden center NASA

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Center even before I became a member of

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the group we go back to where the old

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headquarters was off the corner of

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lafayette park and that was where NAC

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you see a was headquartered at that time

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a single house over there and that was

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the that was the headquarters for NACA

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now if we could just stop and say what

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do we think are the couple of things

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that made this country great but let us

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develop in a very short period of time

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in just about a hundred and twenty years

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into the leader leading nation in the

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whole world well if you thought about it

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for a while I think most people would

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think well education that we came

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general in this country it was for

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everybody it wasn't just for the

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privileged or those kids from the castle

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is

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might have been in in previous ages but

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in this country education came to be for

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everyone but number two then was just

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about have to be the fact that this

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nation put more into basic research

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basic fundamental learning the new

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things first and that's what took us and

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for me a country over here and separated

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from most of the rest of the world and

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yet we became a world leader in about a

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hundred and twenty years in my view the

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old NACA and his subsequent successor at

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masa just exemplifies what I'm talking

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about with that the Wright brothers in

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1903 made made the first light when

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other nations were trying also but

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following that our nation decided as a

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government to do basic research in this

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new area new era of flight and NAC would

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an ACA was formed in 1915 and they

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looked at at air foils and aerodynamics

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shapes they put wind tunnels with high

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and low capacity look into structures

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they looked into handling

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characteristics of airplanes and and

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spins and all the things to do with

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aviation including such things like

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metallurgy for engines so they became

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more reliable and then that had a

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spin-off of its own into such things as

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even made those medals of

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available for longer lasting plows on

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the farms and for new bearings for cars

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so you didn't have to wait so long to

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break them in and then I think me what

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happened next was that the private

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investment in this country took over

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with what those facts were that the

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government had sponsored through the old

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NACA we had companies come out there

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were like Martin and Lockheed in North

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American Douglas Northrop chance vought

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and of course Boeing which became the

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supplier of airliners to the world and

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open whole new vistas that just

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revolutionized the world interest with

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their ability to take people and travel

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greater distances in a short period of

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time and we had World War two and all

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the thousands upon thousands of

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airplanes that used that NACA data to

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make the world's greatest air forces and

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whatever service they served in and it

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was it all came about because of some of

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that NACA research work they had not

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done earlier well that's the NASA

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heritage NACA went out of existence

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after Sputnik president eisenhower

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decided that we needed somebody to get

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into this act ourselves we were behind

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and so it was President Eisenhower that

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sponsored NASA and it became not NACA

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but the National Aeronautics and Space

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Administration and that was added to the

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other NASA missions and so we started

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the manned space program about

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exactly 50 years ago and it was in the

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depths of the Cold War we remembered

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very very well the Soviets claiming

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research and technical superiority to

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the United States thousands of students

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being educated in the Soviet Union and

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sent back to their countries that's

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trying to play catch-up and their

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boosters worked and ours too often were

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blowing up on the launch pads so they

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had beat us into orbit but we did come

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back and we came back in mercury with

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the suborbital flight in 61 the orbital

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flight in 62 Jem and I told us how to

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run taught us how to rendezvous Apollo

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with me Oh made that incredible first

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step on the moon that you saw in the

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footprint a little while ago I always

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get goosebumps every seat time I see

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that thing one in 1973 read a Space Lab

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and it started real big time research

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not just traveling but big time research

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and started this out on the track of

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benefits that would benefit us right

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here on earth in 86 we were brought up

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short because we were reminded of what a

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dangerous businesses can be if we're not

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careful when we had the Challenger and

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all of that accident at that time in 98

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we started the space station later in 98

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we had a space station and later it

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became the International Space Station

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with 15 other nations with us and became

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a long term research into benefits of

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what would accrue to people right here

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on earth if we just use that new

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laboratory of space which we'd never had

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the opportunity to use before we plan

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NASA planned at that time to get into

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biotechnology combustion research fluid

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physics fundamental physics material

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science but in January of 0 for the

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president announced president directed a

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new mission for NASA was to go to the

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moon and to Mars and everybody went

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along with that I went along with that

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thought it was great except for one

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thing the money didn't follow we had no

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plans for new money and Mike Griffin

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look you'll hear from later was given

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what I viewed as an almost impossible

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job do everything you're doing now at

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NASA that's worked out so well for the

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benefit of this country but add to it

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just a couple of little projects like

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going on to the moon and to Mars well he

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had no choice but to do some things like

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cutting research in certain areas so

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today we have a station up there that's

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just about to be completed completing

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the year or so we were was spent a

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little over 100 billion dollars on it

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that's be billion dollars on it but

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we're not using it for the type research

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that we should we should use it for

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because we don't have the money for that

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I've always viewed space flight as being

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of two purposes but both of them are

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research one is mac pro research and one

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is micro research and I think they go

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hand in hand or should if we're to get

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the major benefit out of everything that

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we do in space macro research is the

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exploration going out farther learning

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how to go to different places just the

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traveling to different places what we

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learned just from doing that and from

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building the facilities and the

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spacecraft to go to those different

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places but along with that goes the

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micro research but i think is equally

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important but we have to save more on

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that they even do any of that research

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now or even having to cut out our own

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transport to the International Space

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Station for a number of years after we

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retire the shuttle in 2010 well that

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sounds a little blue me but I certainly

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remain an optimist even at this late

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date to be able to get more money to

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restore but I would see as a balance and

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which I think most people would see as a

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better balance it's an appropriate

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follow-on to naca and NASA's past prep

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past but it's also the key to America's

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future and to America's continued world

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leadership where we go an exploration is

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certainly important but what we learn

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and

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from each of those steps along the way

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will benefit every man woman and child

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in our nation and eventually around the

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world the next 50 who knows but I'm