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OCR Page 1 of 36Andrews/Price
June 8, 1972
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SPEECH - SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Again today there is a new spirit abroad in the world -- a spirit of
man's eternal quest into the unknown, a spirit summed up in the motto
of the first men on the moon three years ago: "We came in peace for all
mankind. 11 More than any place on this earth, perhaps, the place which
can most appropriately lend its name to the aspirations of the seventies
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is that desolate but magnificent lunar sea where Armstrong and the Eagle
first landed and told the world through Houston, "This is Tranquility
Base. 11
We have not yet achieved that time of tranquility, but we have reached
out in hope and daring to establish a base there.
How then shall we consolidate that base, build on it, expand from it
into the full realization of a new age when the Rotary spirit of cooperation
shall become the dominant ethic of international relations as well?
This is a question not just for Americans to ask, not just for Soviets,
not just for Chinese -- it is a question for everyone in each of the 149
countries of the world represented here tonight. For as I said to the
United States Congress ten days ago that these summit journeys have not
been a personal but a national enterprise, SO nowI say to you that the
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