I want to thank the just overly friendly and generous people from Illinois for making this day a wonderful one in my political career.
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Remarks to Members of the Mohammed Shrine Temple of Peoria
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that is a little unfair. I do not think anyone objected to flags being flown and so forth. You make a good point on some of the other things, but that is a little unfair on the flag.





