We count among our most renowned leaders two famous German Americans: the brave Revolutionary War general. Von Steuben. and the great World War II leader and later President. David "Ike" Eisenhower. To them. all Americans own a special debt of gratitude for guiding our Nation through some of its most difficult days. More than 300 years after the arrival of the first German immigrants to our shores. one in four Americansor some 50 million of uscan claim German ancestry. I am proud to be counted among the 2.5 million citizens in my own State of Michigan who are of German descent. Mr.
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