MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING WORLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400380113-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: May 1, 1979
• Content Type: SPEECH

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May 1, 1979
No. 116
SPEECH BY
THE HONORABLE CYRUS R. VANCE
SECRETARY OF STATE
BEFORE
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
May 1, 1979
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From the first days of our nation, Americans
have held a staunch optimism about the future. We
have been a self-confident people, certain about our
ability to shape our destiny.
And we are a people who have not only adapted
well to change, we have thrived on it.
We are now living in a period-of history marked
by deep and rapid change. Tonight, I want to talk
about change, and how America can use its extraordinary
strength to meet the challenges of a changing world.
America's optimism has been jarred in recent
years'-- by a bitter war; by domestic d_visions that
tested our democratic institutions and left many of
our people skeptical about government; by the sudden
awareness that our economic life at hom can be shaped
by actions abroad; and by the realization: that there'
are events which affect us but which we can only partly
influence.
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