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Digitized from Box 10 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 18, 1975
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
(Concord, New Hampshire)
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT HAMPSHIRE PLAZA
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
12:15 P.M. EDT
Mayor Stanton, Governor Thomson, former
Senator Norris Cotton, distinguished guests, ladies
and gentlemen:
I do want to thank you from the very bottom
of my heart for the wonderful reception. I am deeply
grateful and I thank you very, very much.
New Hampshire, as we know, is not the largest
State. It doesn't have the most people of all of our
50 States, but New Hampshire does have a first-class
record at the very top in history and tradition in America,
and I compliment you and congratulate you for that wonder-
ful record.
New Hampshire is also a State that has many
firsts, and one, which is probably the most important as
I was looking over the history, is that New Hampshire
took action on the Declaration of Independence even
before the Continental Congress did. And for that,
I congratulate your forefathers.
May I add that over the years, the State of
New Hampshire has had a wonderful record of outstanding
statesmen. Of course, Daniel Webster has no peer, but
I have known many of the United States Senators and
Representatives from your great State and I can say
that you can be proud of men like Norris Cotton, and
others.
May I just conclude by saying this: That I came
to New Hampshire first back in the late 1930s. I came
up here for the purpose of skiing, but in the process of
going to Tuckerman's Ravine and going down the headwall,
I became very familiar with the terrain.
But it is a great, great State with all its beauty
and it is an even greater State with all the wonderful people.
I thank you again for the warm welcome. It is a wonderful
day and I am most grateful.
(AT 12:18 P.M. EDT)
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