It was Daniel Webster who rose on the floor of the House of Representatives and in his customary eloquence acknowledged Americas ideological debt to Greece and asked that a minister be sent to that struggling nation. But Greek contributions to our own Nation include more than the ideological. Mr. President. From the first recorded Greek immigrant to our shores. in 1848. the people of that nation have become an integral. contributing. part of this Nation. Those contributions span a spectrum that reaches all the way from the Greek architecture of the Lincoln Memorial. to the music of Mitropooulous. to the medical contributions of Papanicolau. to the literature of Zachos. to that delightful concoction of Greek descent. the ice cream cone. Mr.
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