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REMEMBER THESE THINGS
BY
PAUL HARVEY
With an Introduction by EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Arrangement by JOHN M. PRATT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REMEMBER THESE THINGS
This book records strains and stresses, doubts and uncertainties such as were never known, on such a scale, since men first trod the surface of the earth.
It is permeated by faith in our divine origin and our ultimate destiny; understanding of our constant dependence on spiritual guidance and under-pinning that are the first essentials to our survival as a nation. On page 42 we find:
But there are green years...new frontiers...for Americas new pioneers...if we can just revive that wonderful land which once was...where any man willing to stay on his toes could reach for the stars.
The author of REMEMBER THESE THINGS, Paul Harvey, literally grew up with radio and matured in the atmosphere of television. He has a regular following that is numbered by millions of people.
Paul Harvey is unique among news commentators and radio broadcasters in that the American Legion at its 34 th National Convention presented him with its first National Award for militant Americanism and outstanding broadcasts.
History is the record of events which fashion the lives of men and the destinies of nations. In a very real sense Paul Harvey is an historian. He makes of record current happenings throughout the whole world that become factors in shaping political and economic decisions which determine the pattern of things to come.
Constantly scanning the content of worldwide news dispatches and through experience and native ability, which enable him to understand their meaning, Paul Harvey, with unqualified conviction, great simplicity, a rare facility of expression and convincing eloquence, makes a spoken record for posterity.
This book is offered as an instrument to aid in maintaining and strengthening the framework of Americas Priceless Heritageits free institutions.
We acknowledge, with appreciation, our indebtedness to The Burton-Dixie Corporation for permission to use the texts of Paul Harveys radio broadcasts some of which are quoted in REMEMBER THESE THINGS.
John M. Pratt, for
The Publishers
INTRODUCTION
By
Eddie Rickenbacker
Not since our forefathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States of America has any author portrayed their true meaning to the extent that my good friendPaul Harveyhas in REMEMBER THESE THINGS.
In it, Paul Harvey reveals the wisdom and justice of our forefathers and their appreciation of the weaknesses and failures of human beings.
REMEMBER THESE THINGS makes us vividly conscious of how little we, of this generation, remember of what we have been or what we have known. One of the great weaknesses of human beings is our failure to remember in proper perspective the achievements of our past and thereby we penalize the generations to come.
The Freedoms and Liberties, handed down to us, have made it possible for America to grow into world leadership in the short period of 165 years. Without these freedoms and opportunities, we Americans might now be paying the penalty that the peoples of practically every other nation in the world are paying todaynamely, being slaves of the State, instead of the State being a servant of the people.
The clamor for material security is one of the greatest subterfuges ever imposed on a people by dishonest government officials who have let themselves be influenced by tumbleweed thinkers from all parts of the world where misery and poverty are commonplace and slavery the accepted order. This book shows when and how we traded real opportunity for imagined security.
To me, one of the greatest words in the English dictionary today is the word FAILURE. One of the greatest privileges that we of this New World can enjoy, regardless, is the privilege to fail, because freedom to fail implies freedom to succeed.
If we had a few million more men like Paul Harvey in this great country of ours we would have no fear for Americas future and mans freedom. REMEMBER THESE THINGS is as near to the spirit of the New Testament, insofar as Americans are concerned, as anything that has ever come to my attention.
It is my firm belief that a copy of REMEMBER THESE THINGS should be placed in every public school, every high school and every college in this great land of ours. It should become must reading for all boys and girls over ten years of age.
Eddie Rickenbacker
CHAPTER IHOW IT BEGAN
TRIP TO WASHINGTON
Youve been ganged-up on right here at the start.
A couple of cow farmers out where the grass meets the ground have something to say.
Youve heard me mention Farmer Brown from Honey Creek.
Tom Brown and Paul Harvey are neighbors only as they happen to share a state line and talk the same language.
I mean mostly two-syllable words.
What we have to say is in that kind of words. Unsorted. Some are Toms; some are mine.
Farmer Brown and I were in Washington a few days back.
We saw a building called Commerce. From E to Constitution and a whole block wide and a niche every forty feet where a thief can hide...
A building called Justice...outside it says, The Hall of Justice is a Hallowed Place....Not exactly what the newspapers say.
A labyrinth of corridors called State...And no statesmen. Once white stone, indelibly stained now.
The Supreme Court, a place of quiet Corinthian dignity, where the lean young traitor walked in with stolen secrets in his briefcase and walked out with a character reference.
We saw the Pentagonfive-sided temple to Mars which, for as long as time, will be one dimension out of square.
And there, spanning with our eyes the marble and limestone tombstones to honor...long since buried...up toward Arlington where a hundred-thousand Custers sleep...we might have wept.
Except, such times, we get so gol durned mad!
The cost!
The frightful waste!
The corruption!
The black shame of it which makes honest men want to hide their eyes!
