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OCR Page 1 of 19REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AT A DINNER FOR THE GOVERNORS
February 28, 1973
AT 10:15 P.M. EST
I can see that all of you enjoyed the Army Chorus,
as well as I did. You know really my favorite musical
organization and those who are senior Governors and those
who were here before, you remember the Strolling Strings,
but we thought tonight we would have the Army Chorus and
thereby give a balance between the Army and the Air Force
and the Marines and the Navy and all the rest.
The sone was dedicated to you, "Stout-hearted Men"
and that, of course, gives me an opportunity now to propose
a toast.
I was looking back, Governor, to a meeting over
which you presided in Colorado Springs and I was trying to
recall the toast and I think I remember it very well. I was
thinking, for example, tomorrow night there will be a State
dinner here for one of the real great leaders of the world.
She happens to be a woman, because she would be a woman
of course (Laughter) Golda Meir, and we will propose a
toast and I will toast her, the Prime Minister of Israel.
She will toast the President of the United States and so
that will come tomorrow.
We will not have the exchange tonight. This is
a different kind of occasion. But now the Governors have
already been toasted by that marvelous song, "Stout-hearted
Men," but there are women by their side.
I was talking tonight with Mrs. Holton about a
very brave and wonderful woman, Mrs. Galant, and if you have
never heard her name perhaps you might. Her name is Phyllis
Galants. She is the wife of one of the POWs, she is the
head of the organization, and I have met her and I know
when those POWs came back we were all moved by what they
said and how they conducted themselves. I said at the time,
and I am sure all of you share this view, that they were
enormously courageous to have come through what they did
and to survive with their faith in their country and their
God and themselves.
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