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A tradition which began with president theodore roosevelt. The great and the near great have addressed this audience and tonight we welcome a man who eventually we will record as preeminent among World Leaders in the area of greatest need. [applause] i have in mind the discussion of communist aggression as millions of people were enveloped behind an iron curtain. I have in mind the feeling of futility in korea, oppression in our homeland but to meet out the savings and troubling the motors of ourfree enterprise economy. Here then is the man, framed in more who will be acclaimed by future generations as the man who laid the foundations of peace. [applause] and more, he is our president who we love with a deep andabiding affection. [applause] [music] welcome to the Commonwealth Club, im george hammond, chair of the Common ....
Hopalong hi, there. Well, whatcha doing way back there . Come on up here. [laughs] ah, thats better. I am glad you dropped by. I have got a little story i think youll like. It is about a fourlegged friend of mine. No, i dont mean topper back there. This happened awhile back in the beautiful capitan Mountain Country of new mexico, on the Lincoln National forest. It was may time on the capitan, dry and hot but still nice and peaceful. All the animals in the forest were having a grand old time in the sunshine of spring. There was one little, threemonthold fella in particular who did not have a care in the world. He was spending his time having fun, agrowlin and aprowlin and ascratchin. Thats right. That bear cub did not have a care in the world, and somebody, a twolegged somebody, got careless. It took several hundred men five days to lick that fire. 17,000 acres of timber w ....