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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Thomasville, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)

I ,"f"'- • 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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Valdosta, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)

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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Savannah, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)

were alive 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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Waycross, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)

much of the Southern countryside. We have come through the hard times when Southern farm people could earn . "''· '• . ....._,.-, ,, ,. ... . an average gross income of only $186 a year to this new time in which Georgia's per capita income exceeds