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Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of Glen Canyon Dam, Page, Arizona, 9/22/1966" (Item)

is lurninous and delicate. It is found in chambers and arches and tapestried canyon walls. lts texture is ancient. It conaists of eons of time laid bare -- on stone pages or in the treasure troves of Indian mythe and artifacts. It is these attractions

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson upon Arrival at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9/22/1966" (Item)

have visited here many times with my brother - - Tony Taylor - but because both he and your Senators keep me informed of the exciting development and growth of the state. Let me say right now that what I have seen in the past few hours bas left me

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Beginning of 'Adventures in Learning' Trip and Showing of 'Pancho' Film - the White House, 3/13/1967" (Item)

. It shows that Head Start tackles the problem at the most crucial age - when the difference for good or ill can be made, when the most can be done, when the investment in time and money brings the most telling results. ldeally, we would hope that Head Start

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Columbia Community College, Nashville, Tennessee, 3/15/1967" (Item)

that this time is as full of hope as Jefferson•s or Polk1s -- let tbem come to this spoto Foi- Columbia Colloge is an admonition to any pessimist: stop wringing your bands for a moment - and list en td the ringing of eie school belle in our new country

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Dedicating the Sylvania Recreation Area, Ironwood, Michigan, 9/22/1967" (Item)

- from tirne to time -- escape bim. That is what makes the creation of Sylvania Recreation Area both necessary and important. For these woods of maple, birch, bemlock and pine and these sky-blue lakes are within reacb of some ten million people who

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication Ceremonies of Women's Pavilion Hemisfair, 4/6/1968" (Item)

there is a Women's Pavilion at Hemisfair, and delighted this facility will have a strong purpose in future years. Here on this platform are many women I have known whose lives have e x panded with the exciting challenges and opportunities oî our times. Women

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Luncheon for Conservation Leaders - the White House, 11/13/1968" (Item)

on the air. It is a many-faceted bond we share, And I bellew tb.at in onr time in this ho use all of y ou here have belped that word become a more vital part of the political language. F or all of us that w ord has special rneaning, T o me, it is sometimes

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Naturalization Ceremony, East Room, the White House, 11/22/1968" (Item)

are graspi‫ם‬g tbe lirnitless opportunities tbat present themselves in our time • - 1 MORE In Denver, we will see in action a way that aU Americans can have good health care in their neighborhoods -- and in the renaissance of a blighted downtown area

Press release, "Mrs. Johnson's Remarks at Jackson Lake Lodge Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Wyoming, 'Salute to Women Reception' Given by Senator and Mrs. Gale McGee, 8/16/1964" (Item)

in the Nation's Capitol along with other heroic men and women who took giant steps for progress. They rightly call Wyoming "the Equality State". There never was a time in Wyoming's history when woman wasn 1t man 1s full partner. She had to be. In your early

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Norfolk, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)

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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)

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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Mobile, Alabama, 10/9/1964" (Item)

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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Worth, Texas, 10/19/1964" (Item)

and pioneered by people of foresi ghi: spi::ited "can - do people - - should unde rstnad this better than a nyone . And you say i t every time you elect men like John Connally and Jum Wright . I am a Democrat and proud of i t . I am a Democrat from the White

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, 12th Annual Meeting of Keep America Beautiful, Inc,. New York, New York, 10/7/1965" (Item)

bill, then it is because enough of us who care have ~said what we feel in time . But we WILL on another day. Better landscaping a nd good design are also part of the new horizons on the natural beauty front . None of these are abstract causes of purely

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, YWCA National Convention Cleveland, Ohio, 4/20/1964" (Item)

, she found a place to live comfortably while she filled out the inevitable Form 572 dozens of times and looked for a job in the vast and sometimes--alas--impersonal employer -- the United States Government. ~onvenient in the ~eart of the city for her

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic Women's Clubs of Kentucky, Sheraton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, 10/5/1968" (Item)

these beginnings -- to bring down the curtain on a time of energy and movement and compassion in America? 1 believe that would be a tragedy. Hope and progress and compassion can be kept alive in America; they can prevail in the future we hope to build. "'AIT

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 6/3/1965" (Item)

faculty mea and women, and above all, to yourselves who have recognized the opportunity and acted upon it. You now have a precious educational equipment and the question is: What are you going to do with it? In times past, in a number of countries

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, American Road Builders Association, Denver, Colorado, 2/23/1966" (Item)

. It is 35 times as large as the Panama C anal , Grand Coolee Dam and St. Lawrence Seaway combined. Above that, in the next six yea r s, you are planning to build halt- a-million miles of road. Your creations, your works a.re as public as any can

Press release, "Address of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, 10/9/1967" (Item)

as monetary. " All that is why the President in 1965 called the first White House Conference on Natural Beauty -- why be bas put natural beauty high on t h e national agenda. My own time and energy and thought on this rnatter have been largely devoted

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Ceremony to Salute George Perkins Marsh, Rockefeller Home, Woodstock, Vermont, 6/11/1967" (Item)

citizen conservationist today. From the Grand Tetons to the Virgin Islands -- and here in your valley -- be bas made conservation and recreation bis life's work. He once told me, "Our leisure time may well be our Achilles Heel." No one knows better than

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson B'nai B'rith Luncheon -Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, 3/26/1968" (Item)

our own good achievements. VIe must not be complacent -- never ! We must be struggling always. But certainly we do not have to spend our time on a collective psychiatrist couch. -z .. Skepticism is val.id, but cynicism -- the kind of doubt which

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Women Doers Luncheon on 'What Citizens Can Do to Improve the Health of the American Child' - the White House, 4/2/1968" (Item)

its results. Their loving care and supplementary, e nlightened atten tion is vital to the progress of a patient. There are many groupa which give their time and devotion to this service. One is the Jaycees Auxiliary. Seventy- eight percent

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Beautification Luncheon, the White House, 4/17/1968" (Item)

\on, for recreation in the Nation 1 s Capital -- in the mcs t creative way. The project might be called "Mission 1 76." It is an exciting, provocative and hopeful proposal. believe, to set goals and a target time. It is important, I One of the happiest experiences

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Alexandria, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)

and triumphs : 12 Presidents, 15 signe rs of the Constitution, 15 Se cretaries of State from Thomas Jeffe r son t o Dean Rusk. > I . . .. . . .. . ·. . ..... ., ..--" Yet in recent times, we re c ognize the strain in the South from national life

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)

the largest enrollment in North Carolina and perhaps in the Southeast. . - l \ . . " ' . ; l fl 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

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)

sight. Often, afterward he would recall the moment and envy others who experienced this sight for the first time. The freshman congressman checked in, received his office space, and carefully clipped from a country newspaper back home an editorial boldly

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Vista Graduation, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2/26/1965" (Item)

already made your mark here in St. Petersburg. The petition of the people of Ridgecrest and Old Baskin 's Crossing asking for you to stay is evidence of your success. That -- in this brief time -- must be a special source of satis faction. You men

Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Redwood National Park Dedication, 11/25/1968" (Item)

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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Tyler, Texas, 10/26/1964" (Item)

despair in their eyes . The~ e cecories of depression cay seec part of the past to those who live in prosperous times, but no one who has traveled as the President and I have traveled -- can fail to recognize that there are still c any places left behind

Press release, "The 'B. Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture' by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Convention of the American Institute of Architects, Portland, Oregon, 6/26/1968" (Item)

: a challenge to provide such pleasant Ungering places wherever they are needed. The Land and Water Conservation Fund whicb is before Congress at the pl.'esent time is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire vanishing open space, both in the city

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to National Council of State Garden Clubs and American Forestry Association, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 9/7/1965" (Item)

hera~ The arrangements co!J'l..mi ttee :f o~ ycu:r next meeting will h"1ve hard time -c.opp:u~g the Tetons? I GI:"• su1·~ there is no more per:!: ect inspi:ratio:1 fer you ladies and gentlc1:i0n -- the veteran workers in the viney