Friday, February 22, 1974, Reception--Comm. for Fairness to the Presidency
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OCR Page 1 of 7NOT RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 22, 1974
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT A RECEPTION FOR THE
NATIONAL CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR FAIRNESS TO THE PRESIDENCY
THE STATE FLOOR
AT 5:17 P.M. EDT
Rabbi Korff and all of our very distinguished
guests and friends:
I cannot tell you how much this tribute means
to Mrs. Nixon and to me and to our two daughters and sons-in-law.
I can only say that after I came into the room I heard what
some of you were shouting and then I saw Rabbi Korff hold
up his hand like that. (Laughter). He should have held
up his hand like that. (Laughter)
But what is more important than the numbers of
years or months that one serves in this office is what one
is able to accomplish while he is here.
This is Washington's birthday, as we know, and
it is, of course, highly symbolic that it is held, this
meeting, in the East Room with the famous portrait of George
Washington and Martha Washington on each side of me as
I speak.
At such a time we think of the history of our
country, of those who made it, of the many who came here
before Washington did and those who fought with him in the
great battles of the Revoluntionary War. And we also think
of the many who came here after Washington did. Some
were born here.
Most Americans today, however, trace their back-
grounds to parents, grandparents, great grandparents who were
not born here, but chose to come here and that is part of
the greatness of America. It is the fact that out of this
whole wide world we were able to draw people of all races
and all religions and all backgrounds and they created what
is America today.
And it is because America is in a sense a microcosm
of the whole world that America has a special opportunity
at this particular time in our history to lead the whole
world into an era of peace such as we have never known
in this century and perhaps one such as has never been
known in the history of the world.
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