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THE PRESIDENT'S READING COPY JULY 4, 1972 RADIO SPEECH: INVITATION TO THE WORLD good good amming - This Fourth of July holiday is an appropriate time for every American to reflect on the deeper meaning of the momentous events at Philadelphia 196 years ago today. I. John Adams, later to be our second President, summed up that meaning in a letter to his wife on the night of July 3, 1776. (I) The Continental Congress, to which Adams was a delegate, was to complete its work on the Declaration of Independence the following day. (2) About that event, he wrote: