Richard Nixon actually said...

Through that 350 years, your country and ours have been so closely associated in friendship and in good causes.

This is the most significant reform bill ever sent to the Congress, ever offered by an administration in this area.

We believe it will, without question, increase the efficiency and reduce the cost, eventually, of postal service in the United States.

We are not unaware of the fact that you were one of the first of the major countries to recognize the new Nation in 1782.