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The President's Reading Copy Speech - Governors' Conference September 1, 1969 a mostsignifient time of change, - gove. important in History We are meeting here tonight at a time of great and fundamental change in America -- of changes more far-reaching than have ever before been seen in the span of a single lifetime. 1. These changes summon all of us -- the Federal Government, the States, the counties, cities and towns, and each person everywhere -- to an adventure in human advancement. We stand on the threshold of a time when the impossible becomes possible -- a time when we can choose goals that, a generation ago, would have seemed as unreachable as the moon, and reach them. The Spirit of Apollo gave us a brief, glittering glimpse of how far we can stretch. 1. Thousands of minds, thousands of hands, all were marshalled in selfless dedication to achieving a great human dream -- and the dream came true.