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(Huebner) JK July 23, 1970 Suggested Remarks - - Arrival in North Dakota When I fly across this great country, I always start thinking about our history. And today I recalled reading that Alexander Hamilton used to tell his fellow Americans that if they were going to become a truly great people, they would have to "learn to think continentally. 11 That advice is still good today. If we are going to be a great people in the last third of the twentieth century, then the government in Washington will have to do what it did SO well in the early years of our history, but what it has often forgotten to do in recent years, and that is "to think conti- nentally. 11 We must avoid getting SO caught up in what happens in Washington, D. C., that we forget what is happening in Fargo, N.D. When Lewis and Clark first explored this area in 1804 just after it was purchased from France, it took them six months -- from May until November - - to make their way from St. Louis to what is now Bismarck, where they made their winter camp. It's easy to see why North Dakota seemed to be a remote area in 1804, in the days of Presi- dent Jefferson. But now, a century and a half later, I have travelled from Wash- ington to North Dakota in less than three hours. There is no reason why North Dakota and the other Plains States should seem to be remote from the national capital in 1970 - and they are not going to be treated that way by this President.