06/05/1980
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"You represent the United States here on American soil and in your every contact with the people who look to you and say, 'There goes a representative of America.'"
"Today was fulfilled in my life a long ambition to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi."
"I am an important representative here in India, one of our closest and most valued friends in the largest democracy on Earth."
"I think the reason for this is that my family has grown to respect and to love India in the last 10 years."