US Presidency
1952

Dr. Murphy, distinguished guests, Mr. Mayor, delegates to the 29th Annual Convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association: You know, I was very much afraid that you were going to take that admonition of Dr. Murphy seriously, but I am very glad that you didn't, when he told you not to make any noise after the broadcast went on. I am happy to be with you today. It is a pleasure to talk to the young people who run the school papers of this great country of ours. You probably don't know it, but I was a school editor myself once of the high school paper in Independence, Mo. And it was a first edition, too. Charlie Ross, and four or five other kids and myself got out the first number of The Gleam, named after the admonition in Tennyson's poem, After it, follow it, follow the gleam. I have been trying to follow it ever since. From then on I kept going, and you know the trouble that I am in today.