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9-25-48 ALPINE, (TEXAS INTRODUCTION: (Remarks on the crowd) . ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE" BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: 1. I wish I had time to go to the Big Bend National Park. 2. I promise to come back here and visit Big Bend National Park sometime during my next term as President. 3. I understand that nearly forty thousand visitors a year are coming to the Park, and I am sure that even more will come as its reputation spreads. 4. This park is a fine example of how the State and the Federal Government can cooperate. All the people of this country have reason to be grateful to the State of Texas for appropriating One and a half million dollars to buy the land and for the fine highway that it has built into the Park.