I am sincerely sorry that you can't go from one end of the country to the other as you did in Canada, and let everybody in the country have a chance to get acquainted with you, because Margaret tells me that whenever anyone becomes acquainted with you, they immediately fall in love with you.
Harry Truman: “I am sincerely sorry that you can't go from one end of the country to the other as you did in Canada, and let everybody…”
On the recordOctober 30, 1951
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Remarks of Welcome to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Washington National Airport
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