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JOHN C. STENNIS MISSISSIPPI United States Senate WASHINGTON, D. C. January 29, 1973 Dear Mr. President: When I recall that with President Eisenhower you participated in the very first Presidential Prayer Breakfast in 1953, and have contributed SO substantially to the spirit and influence of the National Prayer Breakfast from that time to the present, I am inclined to believe you will find the enclosed memorandum most meaningful and perhaps personally gratifying. The Members of the Senate and House of Representatives Prayer Breakfast Groups desire to express their deep appre- ciation for your significant involvement, concern, interest and dedicated leadership expressed in these national gatherings over the years. It was the desire of the private Committee of Senators and Congressmen responsible for the National Prayer Breakfast that the information herewith, relative to the current national and international activity of our informal fellowship, be made available to you. The National Prayer Breakfast is the visible ex- pression of an unpublicized association of men that began more than a quarter of a century ago in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Centered in the Spirit of Christ, the idea continues to spread among men in positions of responsible leadership in many nations on every continent. In this way it has come about that men in the Senate and House each year invite their friends in positions of responsibility to meet with them and their President in the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington, D. C. In many instances these leaders, upon returning to their