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This law is unusual in that it was agreed to by the mine operators
as well as the State agencies responsible for supervising them, and it
was passed by both houses of the Legislature without opposition.

House Bill 51 contains provisions that will enable the State Bureau
of Mines to enforce good strip mining practices previously left to
chance and more often ignored. It will repeal the three inadequate
present laws which the Bureau administers.

It gives me a great deal of pleasure to sign this forward-looking
legislation and to compliment all of the parties who were involved in
its development, both from the industry and from the State.

REMARKS TO YALE UNIVERSITY YOUNG REPUBLICANS,
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

April 19, 1967

Gentlemen of Yale:

We live in a world of images contrived by image makers and just as
often controverted by the habit of history. What people think of
things, institutions and each other is more pertinent to the affairs of
men than truth itself, since the world is governed by ideas and feelings
and seldom if ever by certain knowledge.

Let us explore this subject of image with particular attention to
the image of our nation and that of the Republican Party. This is a
serious and strenuous business and we can warm to our task by first
considering images we know best — yours and mine.

The image of the student in America today can be disposed of with
dispatch since all the world knows all about you. Plainly you are a
confused and misguided lot. You burn draft cards, need haircuts and
squeal on the CIA. You believe in hardly anything of enduring value
and rest your case on the precepts of free love, LSD and the overriding
conviction that if you can lure all of Vassar College to New Haven you
will have achieved a life's work. You are known to show improper re-
spect for parents, which is never pardonable, and little outward affec-
tion for Lyndon Johnson, which is only sometimes forgiveable. Your
heroes are Mao Tse-Tung, Humphrey Bogart and Truman Capote.
You play much and pray little and rarely conceal your contempt for