Governor Knight, Mrs. Knight, ladies and gentlemen:
It is wonderful to be back in your great State.
A few days ago I was reading the paper and I suddenly decided this was too interesting a place to stay away from until Wednesday night. So I induced my family to change their plans so that I could get here twenty-four hours earlier. I just read the names of too many friends in the papers and I wanted to see them. And I hope I find some of those friends among you.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at the International Airport at 7:00 p.m. in response to words of greeting by Governor Goodwin J. Knight.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks on Arrival at San Francisco for the Republican National Convention. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/233077
