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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • daily telephone service to all areas and all continents, not just the moie highly developed major populated areas. Business and scientific computers will be tied together across the ocean by means of satellite data links providing solutions to many types
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Norfolk, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • the States devoted his life to education and did everything in his power to dissipate ill feelings and forge a new basis for unity between North and South. He advised his fellow South erners: "Make your sons Americans . " Here in Virginia, and particularly
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Mobile, Alabama, 10/9/1964" (Item)
  • the key to your city and you-r proclamation, I want to tell you that a ceremony such as this, fusing the best of the old and the new South, is one that gives me great satisfaction. As Honorary Chairman of the American Landmarks Celebration, I am certainly
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • tasks of the Presidency make a long day's work, and that must come first. These last two days on the train and the stops we have made have given me a chance to look at the South from a new perspective. I am refreshed by what I have seen. The South
Press release, "Speech by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Depot in New Orleans, 10/9/1964" (Item)
  • FOR REL&ASE A.T 6 PoMo Friday, October 91 1964 SP£ECR rrr ?tlS . LINDOW JOHNSON At depot in New lrleans PRito;NDSi What a wandertul, fabulous way to end four unforgettable d~o And, I see you have brou!?ht to the depot just the person I wanted
  • Press release, "Speech by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Depot in New Orleans, 10/9/1964"
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Alexandria, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • . But -- because this is the beginning of a four - day trip that will take me down the railroad track 1, 682 miles to New Orleans, I would like to tell you some of the reasons 1 am going. For me , this trip has been a source of both anxiety and anticipation
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • why Virginians love this land so much. To me, Virginia means b eautiful rolling country, exquisite gardens , and love of family. My husband had an anc estor, Leonard Barnett, from New Kent County. I can understand the Virginia mother who told her son
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Waycross, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • and a beacon of the new South. A while back the President asked me to make a tour of Appalachia, the Southern highlands. There once again, as in the dimly remembered days of the depression, I heard the cries of hungry babies. I sat down with women who couldn't
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Chester, South Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • the Chester blacksmith who came out to inspect the first locomotive to come here and then announced he'd seen everythin g and was ready to die. I've seen a lot, but 1 want to go on seeing more. I am enjoying seeing the prog ressive new South. Especially, I
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Petersburg, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • state legislators see the new opportunities in education and vote their needed support. For all these reasons the President is proud of you and I came here to say to you that to this democratic President and his wife, the South is a respected, valued
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Ahoskie, North Carolina, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • t he olcl a nd the new South are so vividly joine d . I understand Ahoskie began as a railr oad town and I was advised the best thing I could do fo r it was to bring in a trainload of passengers . I've done my best. I ' m so rry we can 't stay long
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Valdosta, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • income of only $186 a y ear to this new time in which Georgia 1s per capita income exceeds $1800. Just since 1960, it has gone up $255 and that 's $ 23 more than the national average. I think 1 can speak truly and proudly of the advances in the economy
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Savannah, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • on Georgia for bats made of Georg ia hardwood. Savannah itself is typical of the American melting pot. It grew from the English under Ogl ethorpe, Salzbugers under Baron von Reck, a colony of wealthy and cultivated Jews, a body of New England Puritans, French
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • in the van of the progressive spirit of the New South, historically it has unfailingly been in that vanguard. North Carolina has not only seemed to take the lead in pro­ viding to its boys and girls, young men and women that indispensable way to a better