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Queen Elizabeth cheered in New York on Bicentennial visit
Queen Elizabeth received honorary citizenship and an Indian peace pipe during a one day New York visit. An estimated 750,000 crowded city streets as Britannia sailed by the Statue of Liberty with a 21 gun salute while ships honored the monarch with horns and sirens. The queen and Prince Philip planned onward stops at Monticello and the University of Virginia before a banquet in Newport News aboard Britannia for President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller.
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George Washington
Abraham
Queen Elizabeth Beame
Her Majesty
M1 of
England
Prince Philip
New York
UPI
Elizabeth
United States
Queen
Prince Philips
Charlottesville
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
University of Virginia
Jefferson
Newport
R. 1
Britannia
Ford
Rockefeller