Dear President Bush,
As one of your most devoted supporters, may I congratulate you on being given Liberia's highest civilian order on Thursday at the executive mansion in Monrovia.
I understand that, in Liberia, almost nothing works and that people are nervous about their future in the aftermath of a catastrophic civil war, that the country is overrun with weapons, malnutrition is pervasive, half the children are not in school, and many buildings are uninhabitable. There is little running water or electricity and no sewage or landline phone system.
Consequently it is no surprise to me that they should have considered you worthy of this signal honor.
| Yours faithfully, Walter A. Huston |