The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.