Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

It was in this spirit that those who preceded you in the great Northwest, in only a century and a half, turned an unsettled wilderness into ...

Where local enterprise can shoulder the burden, it will be encouraged and supported in doing so.

With everything that affects your relationship to your Federal Government, that Government means to be liberal, human, sympathetic--always.

My friends, to join you in so important a ceremony--here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest--is indeed a privilege.