I'm going to sign the proclamation now, but as I sign it, I am commemorating not only the great navigator and explorer, Christopher Columbus, but those who centuries later followed him to the New World and helped make this the great nation that it is today.
Remarks on Signing the Columbus Day Proclamation
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Neither treaty has been ratified because they were not verifiable in their original form.
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