Which president accepted the statue of liberty

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Confirm password. Sign in Email. Therefore I recommend the appropriation of such sum of money as in the judgment of Congress shall be deemed adequate and proper to defray the cost of the inauguration of this statue. I have been informed by the committee that certain expenses have been incurred in the care and custody of the statue since it was deposited on Bedloes Island, and the phraseology of the joint resolution providing for "the permanent care and preservation thereof as a monument of art" would seem to include the payment by the United States of the expense so incurred since the reception of the statue in this country.

The action of the French Government and people in relation to the presentation of this statue to the United States will, I hope, meet with hearty and responsive action upon the part of Congress, in which the Executive will be most happy to cooperate.

Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. The next year, once the pedestal was finished, immigrant workers re-assembled the Statue, and on October 28, , the Statue made its debut.

About 1 million New Yorkers gathered for the ceremony, as Bartholdi released a French flag that covered the Statue of Liberty's face. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, as a gift from France and a sign of mutual friendship. One thing missing from the Statute and pedestal was the famous plaque with a poem from Emma Lazarus.