Richard Nixon actually said...

We welcome you again as one who has visited our country before and we say as you come again that we think you come at a very appropriate tim...

You have been a man of courage and you have captured the imagination of our people because of that courage.

There could be no more searing symbol of governmental inability to act than those rubble-strewn lots and desolate, decaying buildings, once ...

We welcome you, then, today as an old friend.