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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 5, 1950
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
The friend of my youth, who became a tower of strength
when the responsibilities of high office so unexpectedly fell to
me, is gone. To collect one's thoughts to pay tribute to Charles
Ress in the face of this tragic dispensation is not easy. I knew
him as boy and as man. In our high school years together he gave
promise of these superb intellectual powers which he attained in
after life. Teachers and students alike acclaimed him as the best
all around scholar our school had produced.
His years of preparation were followed by an early maturity
of
usefulness. In the many roles of life he played his part with
exalted honor and an honesty of purpose from which he never deviated.
To him as a newspaper man truth was ever mighty as he pursued his
work from Washington to the capitals of Europe and to far continents.
Here at the White House the scope of his influence extended
far beyond his varied and complex and always exacting dutie's as
Secretary to the President. He was in charge of press and radio,
a field which has steadily broadened in recent years with continuous
advance in the technique of communications. It was charactcristic
of Charlie Ross that he was holding a press conference when the
sudden summons came. We all knew that he was working far beyond
his strength. But he would have it so. He fell at his post, a
casualty of his fidelity to duty and his determination that our
people should know the truth, and all the truth, in these critical
times.
His exacting duties did not end with his work as Press
Secretary. More and more, all of us came to depend on the counsel
on questions of high public policy which he could give out of the
wealth of his learning, his wisdom and his far-flung experience.
Patriotism and integrity, honor and honesty, lofty ideals and
nobility of intent were his guides and ordered his life from boy-
hood onward. He saw life steady and saw it whole. We shall miss
him as a public servant and mourn him as a friend.
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