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THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN (Andrews) RP February 18 V 1971 SUGGESTED REMARKS -- YOUNG REPUBLICANS RECEPTION, FEBRUARY 19 You have been here in Washington for several days now, training yourselves for leadership, and it certainly seems to me that this train- ing could not come at a better time than right now at the beginning of this great year of promise, 1971. For this is a time when events are coming together to offer you rare opportunities to lead and high causes to serve. Across this nation, eleven million young people between the ages and 20 have just been admitted to full political participation at the Federal level. These new voters, together with millions of other young Americans in their twenties, do not enter the political arena to act as a "youth bloc" or as an alienated counterculture. Rather they enter, I believe, ready to bury the bitter divisions of the past decade and to (55%) forge a new alliance between the generations. And they seem, at this point, remarkably independent: polls indicate that nearly half decline to identify themselves with either of the major political parties. Reform to Cause dome Cause party - Renguy Next we should ask whether your party and my party, the Republi- can Party, is ready to meet this opportunity. The answer as I see it is that never before in a hundred and fifteen years of greatness, of