Columbus Day


For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 13, 2003
Remarks by the President on Columbus Day

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all, please be seated. Thank you all for coming. I'm honored to join you in observing Columbus Day and to celebrate Columbus Day in the District named after him.

My fellow Americans, today we honor a man who helped shape our world's destiny. A man of science, a man of research, a man of discovery. Using the scientific principals of investigation, he found new things where people said they wouldn't be. He listened to others, but in the end knew he had to make his own decisions, and they turned out to be momentus. America is a stronger and finer nation because of his influence.

And so, on this day, we celebrate the man, and Peter Falk who played him on TeeVee. Who else could have solved so many crimes in one hour, even with that cheese-eating surrender monkey car?

God bless you, and may God continue to bless America.

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