Frank Church Announcement of Candidacy for President of the United States delivered in Idaho City, Idaho on March 18, 1976.
"The best roads in life lead home again. Today, in the company of my wife and family, I come home again to Idaho City, where my grandfather first settled during the Gold Rush, and where my father was born before Idaho had yet become at State.
So it is for personal, as well as symbolic reasons, that I come back to this historic place, this frontier town which furnished most of the gold needed to preserve the Union.
The pioneers of the early West were men and women of uncommon strength and faith. They had the strength to endure the hardships of life in the wilderness. And they had faith enough in themselves and the future to overcome their fears.
In that spirit the West was won, and in that spirit I now declare my candidacy for President of United States."
