. Bell telephone magazine . i> rcprecentatiues ot telephone men and uonicix «_ ^ throurjhout the United Stntes, luc pLcbc»e anettrthe bctermination of all to secuc the nation, in peaceand uar, to the utmost of our ability. A-iTp^^*mr-cnt»ri\t Iy r »;t* «*•■ r- ^.. This handsomely engrossed scroll, signed by Messrs. Craig and Clay, accompanied thetelephone they presented to President Eisenhower on November i8, igjjj 1953-54 The Fifty Millionth Telephone 195 to weigh our opportu-nities and our responsi-bilities. Let me recall to yourminds something thePresident said on an-other occasion. I th
. Bell telephone magazine . i> rcprecentatiues ot telephone men and uonicix «_ ^ throurjhout the United Stntes, luc pLcbc»e anettrthe bctermination of all to secuc the nation, in peaceand uar, to the utmost of our ability. A-iTp^^*mr-cnt»ri\t Iy r »;t* «*•■ r- ^.. This handsomely engrossed scroll, signed by Messrs. Craig and Clay, accompanied thetelephone they presented to President Eisenhower on November i8, igjjj 1953-54 The Fifty Millionth Telephone 195 to weigh our opportu-nities and our responsi-bilities. Let me recall to yourminds something thePresident said on an-other occasion. I thinkthe connection will beclear. In his InauguralAddress last January,he observed that thestrength of all freepeoples lies in theirunity. And he wenton to say, To pro-duce this unity, to meetthe challenge of ourtime, destiny has laidon our country the re-sponsibility of the freeworlds leadership. Those words give ex-pression to a compel-ling fact. We in thiscountry are face to facewith the plain truththat the responsibilityof leadership is could not escape iteven if we wanted to. What does this mean to us whoprovide Americas telephone service? To my notion, it means that a veryconsiderable share of the responsibil-ity the President speaks of rests onus
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