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OCR Page 1 of 5(Andrews) RP
August 4, 1971
SUGGESTED REMARKS - - MANCHESTER AIRPORT
It was right here in Manchester, three and a half years ago this
week, that I entered the 1968 Presidential campaign. I didn't know at the
time that in resuming a political career interrupted for several years by
private law practice that I was following very closely the pattern of your
own President Franklin Pierce's experience more than a century ago.
After serving in both the House and the Senate, Pierce came back to
Concord and spent ten years as a lawyer; then in 1852 he left the Granite
State and won the White House. I do not claim his precedent in all re- -
spects - - his party was the opposite of mine, and it declined to renom-
inate him - - but perhaps the parallel helped to make New Hampshire
a good luck State for me. In any case the people here during that
primary campaign were as warm as the weather was cold. It was a good
beginning that led to a happy ending. I am delighted now to make good on
my promise, made as a candidate in the snows of February, by returning
to New Hampshire as President in the sun of August.
"There is nothing SO powerful as truth - - and often nothing so
strange, 11 Daniel Webster once said. The truth about America - - the
truth of her goodness and greatness -- is perhaps the most powerful and
promising thing in the world today. Yet it is told too seldom, so that it
almost sounds strange when we hear it. One who has voiced that truth
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