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OCR Page 1 of 912/16/60
12/21/60
Fifty years ago the Congress of the United States first brought
me into the service of the United States Government with an appoint-
between
ment to West Point. Thus began an association wath a young Cadet and
the Congress that wound up a half century later in a warm relationship
between a President and the Congress.
They have been full years.
The past eight years have been without precedent in the history
of our government. At no time during that period did the party in con-
trol of the Executive Branch have what could be called a clear working
majority in the Congress. For the last six years the Administration
faced Congresses dominated by the opposition in both houses. But we
did not fall out into bitter, unreconcilable factions which in other nations
have paralyzed the democratic process. Despite our differences
we
worked together, and the business of the nation went forward, and the
fact that it did so is in large measure a credit to the wisdom, fore-
bearance, and sense of duty displayed by the Congress.
For the generous support tendered to me over all these years
of war and peace, I wish to express my abiding gratitude. And now in
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