I Don't Write Letters Anymore.

My First Act As President Is A Prayer. I Ask You To Bow Your Heads: Heavenly Father, We Bow Our Heads And Thank You For Your Love. Accept Our Thanks For The Peace That Yields This Day And The Shared Faith That Makes Its Continuance Likely. Make Us Strong To Do Your Work, Willing To Head And Hear Your Will, And Write On Our Hearts These Words: 'use Power To Help People." For We Know That We Are Given Power, Not To Advance Our Own Purposes, Nor To Make A Great Show In The World, Nor A Name. There Is But One Just Use Of Power, And It Is To Serve People. Help Us To Remember It Lord, Amen.

We Stand Today At A Unique And Extraordinary Moment. The Crisis In The Persian Gulf , As Grave As It Is, Also Offers A Rare Opportunity To Move Toward An Historic Period Of Cooperation. Out Of These Troubled Times, Our Fifth Objective - A New World Order - Can Emerge: A New Era - Freer From The Threat Of Terror, Stronger In The Pursuit Of Justice, And More Secure In The Quest For Peace. An Era In Which The Nations Of The World, East And West, North And South, Can Prosper And Live In Harmony.

Draconian Limits On Economic Growth And On The Use Of The Automobile Should Not Be Necessary In Order To Give Americans Clean Air At Levels They Are Willing To Pay For, But It Will Require Significant Federal, State, And Local Leadership And Innovative Approaches From Government And Industry.

Be Bold In Your Caring, And Be Bold In Your Dreaming.

Learning Is Good In And Of Itself...the Mothers Of The Jewish Ghettoes Of The East Would Pour Honey On A Book So The Children Would Know That Learning Is Sweet. And The Parents Who Settled Hungry Kansas Would Take Their Children In From The Fields When A Teacher Came.