Your nation is grateful to you.

Thank you, Poland, for showing us that the dream is alive.

I'm very grateful that this fine work has been done.

I'm particularly grateful to Jim Calaway who rode in here with me from Corpus Christi.

The Nation owes a special thanks to all those who have contributed to the passage of this legislation.

I'm very deeply grateful to everybody who helped us there.

I thank you again for your hard work and your effective efforts to face facts and to help build a secure future for our country.

I want to express my personal thanks to your great President and to the wonderful people of France.

I express my gratitude to the First Secretary and to Mrs. Gierek for the splendid hospitality accorded in Poland.

Let me voice our country's deep gratitude and great appreciation, not only to you but to all those who helped you achieve what you accomplished.

All of us, as individuals and collectively as a nation, owe much, a very great deal, to our teachers during our lifetime.

I'm deeply grateful to Mr. McAlister for heading up this wonderful affair.

I call upon all Americans to join on that day with their friends and families in homes and places of worship throughout the land to offer thanks for the blessings we enjoy.

I can never repay you, Al, for all the many things that you did for me as minority leader and the things that you have done while I am President.

This country owes a debt of gratitude to 29 million living American veterans who fought for this country in World War I, in World War II, in Korea and Vietnam.

I urge the people of the United States to show their reverence and respect for the mothers of this country by special expressions of affection and gratitude.

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to express, on my part, on behalf of all of the American party, our very deep gratitude to the Prime Minister of Portugal and to the Government of Portugal and to the people of this city and of this island for their very warm hospitality.

As you return to private life, I am sure that each and every one of your many friends and associates here would want to join me in thanking you for a job superbly done and in wishing Lucile and you the happiness you so richly deserve.