Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. ↗
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare. ↗
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. ↗