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  • escort on this whole tour of the Sc•uth, tell me Wilson is one of the loveliest towns in the South. When they go on about the long tree shade~ streets and comfortable homes, I want to get off the train and settle down. I was fascinated to learn
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Wilson, North Carolina, 10/6/1964"
  • e of vast and con­ stant chang e, it is more important than ever that we pres erve our rich i nheritance and remember i ts significance - - both for the pr e sent and for our future . It is most appropriate that this. the home of President Wilson
  • It's just possible that right here with us today, among the students of Woodrow Wilson Junior High, there is a future astronaut. ##########
  • Nation's kilns, however, meant that no American china was purchased for the Executive Mansion until Woodrow Wilson placed an ordcr with Lenox in 1916. In a slightly earlier era, Theodore Roosevelt raged at a secretary when told that no adaquate American
  • County. lt is not hard to understand how this county produced a man who would one day be President; how a little college north of here influenced both a great President, Woodrow Wilson, and a great Secretary of State, Deak Rusk. We are gathered here
  • refugees from San Domingo and waves of Irish fleeing famine. A ll have contributed their eage r, f earless blood to the children of Savannah. The texture of American l ife is woven here. John Wesley preached her e . Woodrow Wilson married here . Eli Whitney
  • brought us here today can be traced back 50 years when another President took pause in a troubled world to look after the needs of the future. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson looked beyond the mounting war in Europe and his concern with poverty
  • , and the spirit of .Eleanor Roosevelt is not among us. Pres i dent Wilson used to say that some people in Washington gr ow in office, while others merely swell. Mrs. Roosevelt steadily g r ew un der the compulsions and inspirations of her great office
  • in the stars -- it is not determined by dictators -­ it is the sum total of the men and women who are t ·bat society. - As you leave this campus today. I would remind you of the words Woodrow Wilson once spoke on another campus: "You are not here merely
  • politics and been elected president. The words of Woodrow Wilson never left him: ttHere, muster, not the forces of party but of humanityf' Often, he recalled this address as one of the high points of his life. It is hard for us to remember now that Sam