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You are about to see the highlights of
Detroit's winning presentation given this

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spring

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and the day in pursuit of the one hundred
sixty eight Olympic Games the record

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consists of a selection of approximately
half of Detroit's presentation Playboys as

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you here are addressing the United States
Olympic at this meeting Detroit was

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selected to be the host city.

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Then the United States in the international
competition which determines the sum of

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the games in one hundred sixty eight.

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You have heard the Detroit story

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but most of you have heard one today
we're going to introduce you to what it

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never met with the Detroit News boundaries
live from south eastern border a mission

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is Detroit USA Today for two citizens
tens of millions of Americans

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the Detroit News which is resources

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and productive energies total
far more than any of you

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that has ever hosted an Olympian if we were
to design special flag to symbolize the

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capability of Detroit USA to
host team sixty eight Olympics.

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We might take is our inspiration.

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By the interlocking circle denoting
international brotherhood our Detroit flag

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might be composed of international here
we we would label one telling another

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expert another. Resources.

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Still another one's ability
and the last and few Diaz

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and two of the foremost leaders of Detroit
USA are here to tell you how we plan to

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build these qualities into the most effective
community effort machinery the world

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has ever seen. What do these five gears
add up to the engine that a word for its.

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Sign many things in words sums up better
than any other what Detroit can mean

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and to the world in one hundred sixty
eight. If you heard the word dynamics.

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Used in the same breath with Detroit.

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So accident of a little racial
or dynamics is exactly.

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We have in greater supply in Detroit
USA than anywhere in the world.

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Detroit has set these wheels in most of
the times before to get things job done

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with some success from this record
comes confident enough to win the

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Olympic Games for America in nineteen sixty
as we reveal the story of these five

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Internet here below you will see

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that the only dirt on the base of the coin
is the dust kicked up by dedicated men

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when they run their sleeves
to do a job and do it.

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Well we get up our Italians Scandinavian
Polish Irish Canadian Americans about this

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and the record proves that no
other region world's economy

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and no other assemblage of world leadership
do a better job on the nineteenth sixty

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eight Olympiads than USA

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I'm Jerome P. Cavanagh mayor of Detroit.

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It's a great pleasure to be here today
before the United States Committee today

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we're going to show you every banner point

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that he tries you've never met the great.

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Sports and Vietnam of Detroit citizens

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and their neighbors is apparent in the
splendid facilities presently available for

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all types of sporting events and all are
actually within ten miles of the city.

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The Olympic Village and
the Olympic Stadium site.

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Let's take a look at some of the existing

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and some of the brand new facilities
within this ten mile radius the proposed

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stadium site the focal point of the Olympic
Games will fulfill all the technical

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specifications required for a one
pick of events and ceremony.

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It will have a seating capacity of one
hundred ten thousand parking facilities for

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twenty thousand vehicles are provided
various other buildings on the site include

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the present college. Marina and
the administrative building.

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Close by will be the brand new velodrome
for cycling events with one mile bank

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track. Its permanent seating
capacity four thousand

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but for the Olympic events this will be
expanded faster the for ten thousand

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spectators.

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And testing of these more than modern
facilities at the stadium complex the

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possibility of this proposed monorail
plan to serve the same him directly.

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Ten minutes away is the
universe Detroit field house.

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The nine thousand seat memorial is ideal
for many indoor activities with the U.

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Of the stadium seating twenty one thousand
is equipped for day or night events.

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Another excellent facility is our
six thousand seat Olympia stadium.

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The home of Detroit victims of these
suburbia equipped and centrally located.

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That is ideal for such indoor events
gymnastics one thing a wrestling

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and basketball.

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Broadhead armory with seeing capacity
of four thousand is a well equipped

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and athletic plan. Specially suited
for fencing and weight in a day.

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In the light Guard armory offers thirty
two thousand square feet of floor space.

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Detroit is ideally located
for aquatic of events.

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Here is the proponent of expansion
and redevelopment of our facilities.

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One of the finest Olympic sized
swimming and diving in America.

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That he tried river
sheltered between the city

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and Ian shorelines provides splendid
water facilities from boating

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and yachting events with plenty of
room for spectators on both banks.

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Val Isle is a unique one thousand
acre park that abounds in spacious

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that flooding is an ideal road
system for cycling an ample parking.

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Here to be the world's first and
finest artificial rowing course one

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and one quarter miles long.

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Three hundred wide designed to
meet every Olympic requirement.

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There will be no other
course like it in the world.

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The University Village complex now in
the advance planning stage for how both

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participants

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and guests on a three hundred four acre
site which is part of the Wayne State

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University campus will be known as Olympic
village during the course of the games

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temporary residents will dine in modern
efficient rooms after dinner they may shop

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for enjoy a wide series of
recreational facilities.

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Olympic village now being planned for both
permanent students and faculty housing.

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By the summer of one nine
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It will be the most modern

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and while Service facility of
its kind anywhere in the world.

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This is typical of Detroit's
concern for the housing

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and hosting of not only
participants and yes

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but the tremendous influx of ethnic groups

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that will find the many many homes of the
Free Zone ethnic groups waiting for them

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with the open door of hospitality.

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Detroit's new civic center is recognised
the world over is one of the largest

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and finest.

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Vention Holland exhibits building
includes a floor area of over one hundred

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thousand square feet. The reunify part of
Torrey M. Seats twelve thousand people.

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All of these facilities as well as those
for archery shooting an equestrian

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activity are already in existence
or in the very advanced stage.

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And absolute assurance can be given to
the extent not presently available these

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facilities can and will be provided.

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People coming to the games here in America's
heartland will find plenty of places

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to stay forty five
thousand comfortable motel

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and hotel rooms are
within one hour's drive.

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Now I want to establish firmly the financial
responsibility and capacity of USA.

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To make the one nine hundred sixty
eight Olympics an outstanding success.

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First let's look at the fiscal soundness
of Detroit as demonstrated by the budget

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for a one nine hundred
sixty two sixty three.

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Budget well over three hundred
fifty million dollars.

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We're proud to say that this budget
has been balanced realistically

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and is based on conservative
estimates of revenue sources.

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Detroit has never been
so financially healthy.

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As for industrial the true

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and real value of the six county area we
call metropolitan Detroit is reckoned in

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the billions specially dramatic is the
city of Detroit municipal development.

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Since one nine hundred fifty two

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and plan by nine hundred sixty seven Detroit
taxpayers to put well over a billion

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and a quarter dollars in
capital improvements.

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As for commerce Detroit because of the
St Lawrence Seaway now handles a greater

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number of imports

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and exports than any other port of entry
in the entire United States except New

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York City. Retail sales
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Over five billion dollars.

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Today Detroit produces more wealth per
capita than any other city in the United

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States.

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Seventy one percent of writers own their
own homes a record among the nation's

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population centers. We are a fiscally
stable Olympic minded community.

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I believe that we have convincingly
pro-trade our ability.

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Our facilities and our determination.

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The basic purpose as we
understand it in staging

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and Olympiad the Olympic torch
in all parts of the world.

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We have graphically demonstrated

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that Detroit our city is centrally located
for over ninety million people in the

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United States.

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Everyone in our area supports the Olympic
bid the service clubs the high schools

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the college students the leadership

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and membership of the great
international labor unions

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that are headquartered in our city business
man educators city councils in Michigan

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and surrounding areas mayors in most
of the major Midwestern cities.

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What I'm saying in effect is that the
men women the children of all races

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and all the diverse national groups have
voiced their support for Detroit separates

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Now let's get down to our program for
financing the one nine hundred sixty eight

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Olympic Games.

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Most of the facilities as mentioned
earlier are already in existence.

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I might add standing and paid for.

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We are concerned here with the financing
and construction of two major projects.

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First Olympic Village the city of Detroit
along with Wayne State University is

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already committed to the fulfillment of
this city within a city which will be a

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dynamic part of the Wayne State University
campus. Second the new stadium.

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In the quest for the one nine hundred sixty
eight Olympics the Michigan legislature

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has a. The public authority to
finance and operate the stadium.

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And now to tell you
about this legislation.

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It gives me great pleasure to present
the Honorable George Romney.

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Governor of the state of Michigan
governor. Thank you Mayor.

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Cavanagh our state legislature has
taken almost unanimous action.

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It's passed three measures first as ACT
number twelve eighteen creating a state

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recreation and building authority to
issue bonds and sell the stadium.

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Second while we only need a million
three hundred sixty thousand to pay the

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principal and interest on the stadium.

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The second back number twelve nineteen
provides a million six hundred thousand of

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additional revenue annually.

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It might surprise some of you to know

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that this year Michigan will have a
surplus of thirty four million dollars

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and we'll have a surplus next year the
stadium bonds will be paid for from the

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state's general revenue third the
legislature by a concurrent resolution has

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created a joint House Senate
committee to make sure

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that the legislature does the additional
necessary things to bring the Olympiad to

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Detroit these actions show
that Michigan MEANS BUSINESS.

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When the question was raised about
Detroit's ability to finance the games.

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The whole state rallied spontaneously
to support this financing program.

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I know of no major legislation

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that has ever gone through the Michigan
legislature as rapidly as this

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and this is so that we could present
a firm and adequate program so

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that we can be sure

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that the nine hundred sixty eight Olympian
will be have not a nineteen thirty two

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model stadium but in our nineteen sixty
eight model. Thank you very much.