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FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 - 5:15 p . m. EST
REMARKS BY MRS. LYNDON B . JOHNSON
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
Mrs. Sanders, the wife of your governor , tells me this
is great quail country. I don't have time today
- on this whole tour of the South, said the
time to come to Rocky Mount is the time of the June German. I
explained to them that dancing is more in L uci's and Lynda's
line than mine.
I did most of my dancing in t he days when your leadi ng
citizen, Kay Kayser
- hope I can
come back some leisurely time and try it.
This is a campaign visit, but it is also a sentimental
journey. From t he time I was six until I was twenty-one, my
summertime s were spent in Alabama with side trips to Georgia.
Georgia strains run
- first.
So, I am coming to visit some of the states I know best,
in many of which I spent summer-times and vacation-times of my
childhood.
Ten months ago on a dreadful day that shook our country,
my husband became your President. Since then he has tried
- Washington's Alexandria, to have been welcomed in
tradition rich Fredericksburg, and now to be at Randolph-Macon
College whose roots go back to our historic beginnings.
You are fortunate young men. You have come on stage
at a time when your country needs you
- of the Presidency doesn 1t stop day by day, and it is what be
must put first .
So, I am coming to visit some of the states I know best,
in many of which I spent s ummer-times and vacation-times of my
childhood.
Ten months a g o on a dreadful day that shook our
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today, I wonder what she would think of my standing up here talking
to you. In her day candidates' wives were seen but not heard.
But times are changing and I'm happy to have moral support today
from Mrs. Sanders, the wife of your Governor
- much of the Southern countryside.
We have come through the hard times when Southern farm people could earn
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an average gross income of only $186 a year to this new time in which
Georgia's per capita income exceeds
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c ounties are looking to future needs -- and preparing to meet them
in time.
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I heard with interest of yotr Salem Church Dam Project
which will conserve that resource that every Texan appreciates
water
- gave my husband his Silve r Star in
the South Pacific during World \Wlir II. Just last January, General Mac
Arthur said: "If I'd known Lyndon was to become President, I would have
looked after his welfare better than I did, but at the time he seemed
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at the Navy Yard. So the partnership means jobs and a better
community to live in. It spells prosperity for Charleston, and at the
same time greater economic and defense strength for the whole country.
This partnership takes Federal resources. And it takes
men
- to be in that part of the country
where, although you might not like all I say, at least you understand
the way I say it.
From the time I was six years old, summer meant coming
back to Alabama. As I think back to my girlhood, I have so many
memories filled
- and triumphs : 12 Presidents,
15 signe rs of the Constitution, 15 Se cretaries of State from Thomas
Jeffe r son t o Dean Rusk.
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Yet in recent times, we re c ognize the strain in the South from
national life
- the largest enrollment in North Carolina and
perhaps in the Southeast.
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This accent on education in Greensboro has given the world
such men as 0 1Henry and Wilbur Daniel Steel&, four - time winner
of the 0 1Henry award