A Governors' Conference...
One of my jobs, at the Lake Tahoe Historical Society, is to archive/document books the museum receives. I could not put down the souvenir album from the 65th National Governors' Conference that was held at Del Webb's Sahara, Lake Tahoe, NV (now known as The Horizon at Stateline, NV) from June 3-6th.
This book was filled with actual photographs placed into the album of all the governors who attended (all 50 states plus Guam and Puerto Rico). It was a very distinguished list of historically significant men: Nelson Rockefeller, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, to name just a few. Two of the guest speakers were Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Casper Weinberger, Secretary, US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare.
After all the politics were over, Danny Thomas entertained them in the showroom. On the weekend, the families joined the Governors and spent the day at the Ponderosa Ranch. How fun to see photos of these leaders of government out and about in the familiar tourist spots my family loved as well.
I enjoyed Father James Mc Grath's patriotic opening prayer:
This book was filled with actual photographs placed into the album of all the governors who attended (all 50 states plus Guam and Puerto Rico). It was a very distinguished list of historically significant men: Nelson Rockefeller, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, to name just a few. Two of the guest speakers were Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Casper Weinberger, Secretary, US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare.
After all the politics were over, Danny Thomas entertained them in the showroom. On the weekend, the families joined the Governors and spent the day at the Ponderosa Ranch. How fun to see photos of these leaders of government out and about in the familiar tourist spots my family loved as well.
I enjoyed Father James Mc Grath's patriotic opening prayer:
May your Holy Spirit inspire and guide all the participants taking part in this Conference, so that they can help all of us who have the privilege of American citizenship to serve the Nation worthily with a good conscience. May you count everyone to be obedient to the Constitution and to the laws of the States, and to give wholehearted support to public officials from the most renowned to the least among them. Give us the patriotic fervor, Lord, to see that all within our Nation do likewise, so that ever the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Amen.
I continue to be enamored with all the history I keep discovering.
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