"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."

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"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."

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"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

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"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."

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