WELL, Candy, I thank you very much, and I am sure that the children of Washington will enjoy the deer.
Now I hope the deer likes its new home, too. But it may be like a lot of other folks that go to Washington, they find out they have left a lot behind.
I am sure if I were going away from these woods, along these lovely lakes and rivers, and had to go live in Washington, I would think twice, wouldn't you?
But I will take it down.
Good luck to you, and thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 2:05 p.m. Candy Tibbetts, the 12-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verde Tibbetts of Rangeley, Maine, presented the month-old fawn as a gift from the children of that area to the children of Washington, D.C. It was placed in the National Zoological Park in Washington.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks at the Fawn Presentation Ceremonies, Rangeley, Maine. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/233167
