The President's Very Shrewd

But As A Young Kid, I Never Did, Really Have An Ambition To Be A Farmer. I Never Thought, Gee, I Would Like To Farm, And I Want To Raise These Crops. I Didn't Quite Know What I Wanted To Do.

I Don't Know Many People, If Any, Who Have Had Some Straight Line Toward Success. I Mean, They Start Here, They Work Hard, They've Got What It Takes, And They Just Go Straight To The Top Over Some Number Of Years. Most People Get A Little Failure.

And From A Military School Which Taught Me That To Fit Into Society, You Can't Just Do Anything You Damn Well Please Because It Will Suit You. And That It's Much Better To Be With The Winners Than It Is With The Losers.

There Was A Little Bit Of Ham In Me. And There's A Lot Of People Say There's A Lot Of Ham In Me.

But In 1941, On December 8th, After The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, My Mother Bought A Radio And We Listened To The War News. We'd Not Had A Radio Up To That Time. I Was Born In 1934, So I Was Seven Years Of Age.