It is the creation of opportunityof blessings to be shared. It is the warmhearted welcome that brought the millions from old. tired lands to share the dangers and the destiny of the New World. Hereon this Senate floorwe recalledone June daythat John Kennedy had exalted this land as "a nation of immigrants." We Senators said that to commemorate the voyage of Columbus would be to honor the courageous generation after generation of immigrants who came here in hope and stayed here in happiness. We then legislated Columbus Day into the law of the land. Thusfor the first timethe Senate salutes Columbus Day as a legal public holidayto have its honored observance on the second Monday of each October.
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