08/01/1977
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"This is a happy day for us."
"I invite the people of this Nation to observe that day in schools, churches, and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies in honor of the great explorer."
"I hereby designate Monday, October 10, 1977, as Columbus Day."
"I think when you go back into the history of Italians, more than 2,000 years, and if you would inventory all the great achievements of humankind, those of the ancestors of Italian Americans would stan..."