US Presidency
1968

But I do want to leave this thought with you as I leave you this morning: I hope that you will give this trust your closest care, acting as I know you can, to guard not only against the obvious, but to watch for the hidden the sometimes unintentional, the often petty intrusions upon the integrity of the information by which Americans decide. Men and women of the airways fully as much as men and women of public service have a public trust and if liberty is to survive and to succeed, that solemn trust must be faithfully kept. I do not want- and I don't think you want to wake up some morning and find America changed because we slept when we should have been awake, because we remained silent when we should have spoken up, because we went along with what was popular and fashionable and in rather than what was necessary and what was right. Being faithful to our trust ought to be the prime test of any public trustee in office or on the airways.