April 17 1961 Invitation to White House Luncheon & MORE Pete Chacharis JFK

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April 17 1961 Invitation to White House Luncheon & MORE Pete Chacharis JFK:
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We are pleased to offer this vintage original set of Luncheon invitations to the Kennedy White House for Luncheon. Included are a menu, Mrs Chacharis place card, entrance instructions, RSVP and invitation. Mrs Chacharis was a relative of Gary Indiana\'s Mayor at the time. Notice her name was misspelled on invitation. Also this is the day of the bay of pigs invasion. This was a luncheon with the Greek Prime Minister, Copied from web...

Mr. Prime Minister, Mrs. Caramanlis, ladies and gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure for meto welcome you to the shores of the United States once again. Someone oncesaid everyone is either an Athenian or a Spartan - in any case, we areall Greeks in the great sense of recognizing the wellspring from whichall of our efforts began.
I am sure that sometimes theGreeks get tired of hearing about ancient history, because they are concernedwith making history today. But we look to ancient Greece for inspiration,and we look to modern Greece for comradeship.
And it is a source of pleasureto me today, as President, to welcome them, and also to recall that I wasa Member of Congress in 1947 when President Truman put forward the TrumanDoctrine. Congressman Halleck who is now Minority Leader of the House wasthen I believe Majority Whip, and the Majority Leader at that time wasCongressman Martin - one of the few occasions when Mr. Rayburn was notthe Speaker - but they did indicate their strong support. While there weresome questions in dispute in the 80th Congress, that was not one of them.But the immediate support which President Truman as the President receivedfrom Members of Congress on both sides - Republican and Democratic - indicatesour awareness of the vital role that Greece has to play in the life ofEurope, our common obligation to Greece and our common hope for the future.
So that I must say, on a dayin which I believe we celebrate the birthday of the Foreign Minister -this first luncheon we have had at the White House where ladies have beenpermitted to be present, attended by distinguished citizens of my own country,many of whom are of Greek extraction, and all of whom are great citizensof this country and have been greatly interested in furthering good relationsbetween the United States and Greece - it is a great pleasure to welcomeyou both here, and I ask you all to rise and drink with me a toast to theKing of Greece.