Richard Nixon actually said...

Speaking officially for the people of the United States, we recall the great debt we owe to those courageous and daring Spanish explorers wh...

And on such an occasion, therefore, all of us here who know Spain, who have had the opportunity to visit Spain--and that is virtually everyb...

I urge the Congress to act favorably upon them.

And so we in the United States feel that we are very fortunate to be able to be partners in cooperating toward that future, not simply in ou...