Proclamation 3748—Columbus Day, 1966
09/21/1966
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No. He said he wanted to enter private life.
It is the task and the test of democracy to assure that the moderate and good-willed majority prevails and has its way.
So, not as partisans, not as Democrats, and not as Republicans, but only and always as Americans let us look to the good...
He is that rarest of all visitors to this house--a man who is nonpolitical by law.