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nter: in our backyard;above, right: posing for a photo for Mother’s Day My grandmother Edith Grisham Cassidy, 1949. Vincent’s Hospital, where the Catholic nuns took loving care of him. In the years ahead, many of our proposals would find their way into law and practice. ies at the Smithsonian Institution, and on the thirty-first a children’s celebration in the afternoon

I was determined to stop them; the future direction of our nation hung in the balance. e needed thirteen, and canceled my scheduled trip to the Asia Pacific leaders’ meeting in Osaka, Japan. It’s the only time in a year when a President gets the chance to speak to the American people, unfiltered, for a whole hour, and I wanted to make the most of it. I ended the month with a major speech at the National Academy of Sciences, outlining my proposals to protect America from te