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Remarks in Annapolis at a Luncheon in the Midshipmen's Mess Hall
… and i couldn't pass the physical examination. i had a flat eyeball and couldn't see. we used to play neighborhood pigtail baseball, and they always made me the umpire on that account. however, since i couldn't follow this career in the navy, i had … by your splendid review. i have also enjoyed a chance to talk with some of you at lunch today. i will enjoy seeing the baseball game--in spite of the fact that i will have to be neutral--and the track meet this afternoon. i know that whichever …
The President's News Conference
… talk you had with these businessmen 2 or 3 days ago--i think it was last week--in which one of them said that you had a baseball bat in the corner waiting for them? the president. the speech that i made to those businessmen was off the record, …
Address in Hartford, Connecticut
… say about this? they say: "it's time for a change." now, my friends, maybe that's an appealing slogan. i know many a baseball fan who was rooting for the brooklyn dodgers in the world series just because the yankees had won too many times. it …
Address in Chicago on Army Day
… nations cannot, on the surrender of a vicious and dangerous enemy, turn their backs and go home. wars are different from baseball games where, at the end of the game, the teams get dressed and leave the park. in wars, the victors must make sure …
The President's News Conference
… president. yes, i do. the door is always open on politics. it's the--the great american game. i think it beats football, baseball, and basketball and everything else. i like politics. and i have been in it--come january 2, 1953, i will have been …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Pennsylvania
… i appreciate this reception more than i can tell you. somebody told me that williamsport was the place where the little baseball league started. now i am something of a fan, although not a very good one. i am not nearly so good a fan as the … the history of every player, his batting average, how many games he has won and lost. but i can't do that, although i like baseball games. i think one of the finest things in the world is to get young people interested in that great american sport. …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri
… people in this part of the world because i think as you do and you think as i do--i think. i understand that des moines' baseball team won the pennant this year in the western league. i've been trying to get kansas city to win the pennant in the …
Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Texas and Oklahoma
… out to be about three or four thousand people, after we had already spoken to three or four times that many out at the baseball park. the washita valley here is one of the richest and most fertile valleys in the country, so i'm told. i don't …
Rear Platform Remarks in Washington
… you very much for that nice welcome. thank you. i understand you raise a lot of good things here--good milk cows, and good baseball teams, and good basketball players. i wish i could stop and see them all in operation. i expect some of you may have …