Remarks in Hauppauge, New York
10/30/1976
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They have served us with great, great distinction.
I felt that our meeting today was one of the most constructive, one of the most friendly.
I wish to thank you, each and every one of you who are being rewarded here today, for a job well done.
Wilderness preservation insures that a central facet of our Nation can still be realized, not just remembered.