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July 23, 1970
Suggested Remarks - - Arrival in North Dakota
When I fly across this great country, I always start thinking about
our history. And today I recalled reading that Alexander Hamilton used
to tell his fellow Americans that if they were going to become a truly
great people, they would have to "learn to think continentally. 11 That
advice is still good today. If we are going to be a great people in the last
third of the twentieth century, then the government in Washington will
have to do what it did SO well in the early years of our history, but what
it has often forgotten to do in recent years, and that is "to think conti-
nentally. 11 We must avoid getting SO caught up in what happens in
Washington, D. C., that we forget what is happening in Fargo, N.D.
When Lewis and Clark first explored this area in 1804 just after
it was purchased from France, it took them six months -- from May
until November - - to make their way from St. Louis to what is now
Bismarck, where they made their winter camp. It's easy to see why
North Dakota seemed to be a remote area in 1804, in the days of Presi-
dent Jefferson.
But now, a century and a half later, I have travelled from Wash-
ington to North Dakota in less than three hours. There is no reason why
North Dakota and the other Plains States should seem to be remote from
the national capital in 1970 - and they are not going to be treated that
way by this President.
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