By the Grace of G-d13th of Nissan, 5749Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing!

Thank you very much, Mr. President, for your kind and heartwarming letter of April 13, 1989, on the occasion of my birthday.

I deeply appreciate your warm sentiments and good wishes which I can best reciprocate by quoting the Divine promise to Abraham, "I will bless them that bless thee."

Accordingly, may you, together with the First Lady and all yours, be blessed from on high with all good, both materially and spiritually.

Your kind tribute to the Lubavitch movement, which I am privileged to head, is a message of encouragement to me and to our members in the USA and abroad.

Of course, a large measure of whatever has been achieved is due to the happy circumstances that when my predecessor, my father-in-law the Rebbe of saintly memory, transplanted the movement's headquarters on these blessed shores (in 1940), it found fertile soil and a conducive climate to thrive and grow consistently, from strength to strength.

Your personal and Presidential support to "Education Day, USA," reflects your awareness that education is the first and foremost vehicle of fostering, the most basic and inexhaustible national resource. This, as mentioned earlier, is truly a source of encouragement to all who work for the betterment of life at home and for humankind at large.

With prayerful wishes for your continued success in carrying out the awesome responsibilities of your exalted office, in the best and fullest measure, in good health and happy circumstances.

With esteem and blessing,

M. Schneerson