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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois

February 8, 1967

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Chicago, Il

It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, which can determine destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.