Some of the President's comments at the time bear repeating — and it should be remembered that the President gave the word "progress" a special flavor by pronouncing it prog-erse. He also flavored the words "chair" and "warehouse," pronouncing them cheer and wirehouse.
"Now, some people are going around saying the American economy is old and sick," said the President, "and I frankly can't understand how they can say such a thing, because there is now more opportunity for progerse on all fronts than at any time in human history. "And there is one frontier we can make particular progerse on and that is the great frontier of space. We have been turned back by space once, but it isn't the American way to take no for an answer where progerse is concerned.”
"Now, people of faint heart come to see me every day at the White House," said the President, "and they weep and wail and say, 'Oh, Mr. President, the wirehouses are all full of automobiles and airplanes and kitchen appliances and various other products,' and they say, 'Oh, Mr. President, there is nothing more that anybody wants the factories to make because everybody already has two, three, and four of everything.' "One man in particular, I remember, was a cheer manufacturer, and he had way overproduced, and all he could think about was all those cheers in the wirehouse. And I said to him, 'In the next twenty years, the population of the world is going to double, and all those billions of new people are going to need things to sit down on, so you just hang on to those cheers. Meanwhile, why don't you forget about those cheers in the wirehouse and think about progerse in
space?'"
I felt this was worth preserving for posterity. So, in one take, here is Metz O’Magic’s rendition of this famous passage as an audio recording:
Cheers and Wirehouses
But, as I’m wont to, I digress. I researched quite a few puzzles in order to bring you tonight’s offering, and just couldn’t find one that I was happy with concerning the level of difficulty. So herewith are two puzzles that are challenging enough in their own right. The first one above shall be dubbed #358-1, and below is #358-2: