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upud-Byena Vista College A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Storm take, lowa may 26, 1968 "ARCHITECTS OF CHANGE" WHENEVER A MAN IS ASKED TO TALK TO A GRADUATING CLASS, HE AUTOMATICALLY THINKS BACK TO HIS OWN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. THIS IS ALWAYS A RATHER DISCOURAGING EXPERIENCE FOR ME, BECAUSE I REALIZE THAT WHATEVER ADVICE MY UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER GAVE ME...l JUST CAN'T REMEMBER IT. THE FIRST REQUISITE OF A COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER, THEREFORE, IS THAT HE BE RATHER BRAVE AND DARING. HE WOULD HAVE TO BE IF HE CONSIDERS THE WORDS OF PHILIP STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, WHO ONCE WROTE: need "ADVICE IS SELDOM WELCOME, AND THOSE WHO WANT (THAT is, NEED) IT MOST/ALWAYS LIKE IT LEAST." 8. FORD AND 42 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, A Digitized from Box D24 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library