Program for State Dinner Honoring Italian Prime Minister
This is the fifth page of an event program that was distributed to guests of a State Dinner hosted by President Jimmy Carter in honor of Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga of Italy on January 24, 1980. This page of the program describes the dinner theme of the spirit of the American Western frontier translated for the Italian dinner guests. The program included the same text translated for Italian dinner guests, visible on 1127076. To view the complete program, see 1127100.
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