 Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, will the band please, where's the band? Thank you very much, it's a wonderful band and we're gonna call on you again in just a moment. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Congressman Bards along with Secretary Hodges, co-chairman of this train. We have aboard the face lady of our land. She has traveled through three of the great states of the South, Virginia, and North Carolina, and now the great state of South Carolina. She has appeared, I would say, now at least 25 times and everywhere in the South land, this lady who is born and reared in the South and loves it just as you and I do has been given a magnificent reception. Now, before I introduce some people whom you already know well and favorably and whom you have honored with higher public office in this great state of our country, I would like to call some names of some distinguished citizens of this great section of South Carolina who have been on the train and who will depart as I call their names. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sims, the second co-chairman of this train. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Sims, I served in the house with Hugo, a distinguished member of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Wolfe. Julian Wolfe has been a solicitor of this district for many years, a distinguished citizen. Senator and Mrs. Marshall Williams, a very distinguished citizen of your great state, the chairman of the board of trustees of the Magnificent University of South Carolina, Rod L. Osborne in his lovely way. And Mr. and Mrs. Robert Osmond. And Mr. and Mrs. Harrod Bozard, co-chairman of the Ladybred Special. Governor and Mrs. George Bell Timberman. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Scott, Donald Russell Jr., Tom Hutto, Mr. Hendricks, Mr. Shaheen, and all of the governor's office, Ms. Ruth Moore, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jeffries Jr., and Ms. Inaz Watson, who I understand has been in the public service of this state for a great many years. And now it's my privilege to not introduce to you but present to you one of the great governors in the United States of America, a Democrat through and through Governor Russell of South Carolina. It's a great pleasure to be here. It's a great honor to be a part of this train. And I know as this train goes through South Carolina, it's a harbinger of what's going to happen on November the 3rd when Lyndon beat, when all of us are going to combine to put South Carolina in the Lyndon beat Johnson dollar. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is not on my agenda, but this lovely lady, the wife of the governor, Virginia Russell, has been on this train since we left Washington yesterday. Not only that, she and my wife helped to put this train together. And I wish you'll just say a word, Virginia, and let these folks show their appreciation to you. Thank you so much. I'm proud to be a Democrat, to work for the Democratic cause and to have this train come through South Carolina and to bring to you the loveliest lady, the most gracious lady, the kindest lady, the first lady of the world, Ms. Lyndon Johnson. Now, let me tell you something. In South Carolina, we changed the name of this train. It was a Lady Bird Special, but now it's a Johnson Special. We got four Johnsons on this train. We got Olin Johnson. We got his wife. We got Lady Bird Johnson, and we got Lyndon Bird Johnson. I want to introduce to you, I say introduce to you, that's ridiculous. I want to present to you the wife of a senior senator from South Carolina, one of the loveliest ladies on earth, and our Magnificent Democrat, Mrs. Olin Johnson. I can. Folks, this has been the greatest day in the history of South Carolina. From the moment we came over the state line, people have rallied, have come out, and they have made us know that we believe in Lyndon Johnson and his principles, and I know that God's blessings will be upon us as we follow him in the November election. Thank you. Now, let me tell you something. You know the president, after attending the biggest rally in the South last night in Rawley, is out in the Midwest today, and all of you know what's happening in this country. The president's going to carry the West, and he's going to carry the Midwest, and he's going to carry Maine, and Vermont, and New Hampshire, and Arizona, and if anybody thinks he's not going to carry South Carolina and North Carolina, now let one of the great senators of the United States Senate, a loyal Democrat, a true side of the great state of South Carolina, tell you what's going to happen here. Here's your friend and the president of the United States, and of South Carolina, the honorable old Lyndon Johnson. Congressman Boggs, another distinguished guest, I'm glad to have this privilege to come to Orangeburg and to speak to you good people. For I am one that has been a Democrat, I intend to be a Democrat, and I'm a Democrat because of the principles that I stand for, trying to help the farmers, trying to help the working people of this state, and I can also say that if you vote for gold, water, you're not voting for progress evil. Now friends, I know what's going to happen on November the 3rd. Your people are going to step of the record of the man, and I dare anybody to step of the record, and if they don't find out that Lyndon Johnson is head and shoulders above gold, water, then you can vote for gold, water. Now then, friends, there's much at stake in this state. You farmers, look at how the votes have been in the United States Senate. You'll find that gold, water on each instance has voted against the farmers of this nation, and I'm on that committee, vice chairman of the committee. So vote then if you want to for gold, water, and see your cotton drop, six or eight percent. I would be sorry for the middle people, a place where I worked for 10 years, because I fear that they will be shut down, and that people will be thrown out of employment, because I know that they can't meet their world competition and pay eight cents a pound more for cotton. So it's between the farmers and the middle people that's going to be caught in this race. Can I be dared in my duty if I didn't come and tell my people of South Carolina what you are facing in this election? God bless you, vote your conscience. Now ladies and gentlemen, on yesterday morning, as the sun was rising over the capital dome of the great United States of America, which we love and whose future we have faith in, a crowd gathered in Alexandria, Virginia, one of the historic cities of our country. Since that time, less than 48 hours ago, Mrs. Johnson, the face lady of our land, has spoken to almost a quarter of a million southern Americans, and they have given her a warm, friendly reception, because she is of the South. She was born and reared in the South. She understands our problems. She has compassion for our people because she knows them and loves them just as you and I do. And it's my great privilege, my high honor, to present to you a good and wonderful woman, one that the whole world admires and respects the face lady of our land, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Orangeburg wasn't on my schedule, but I wanted to come here because I heard there are a lot of good, faithful Democrats here. And I wanted to say to you that we value you, we believe in you, we appreciate you. In fact, I asked for this assignment to make this whistle stop South because this is the part of the country that I care about very much. It is the home of my ancestors, my grandmother, Emma Bates and her parents were born here in South Carolina, and throughout the 29 years in Congress and the vice presidency that my husband has spent, he has worked with your congressmen and senators to do for the state of South Carolina the things it needs most to help it secure a better chance to a better life. The Democratic Party has always been concerned with the problems of South Carolina. And I know South Carolina will remember that this fall. I thank you for this wonderful reception. And now, and now before we go on down this whistle stop trail, I want to present our daughter, Linda Byrd. Both from, from Kaplan and State College for coming. We certainly, we certainly, we certainly do appreciate all of y'all coming. We particularly appreciate the signs even though there are a few to disagree. We know in our hearts who's right, people from South Carolina here cheering for us. Cause we know those other people are just from the state of confusion to the White House. Thank you folks. Give them all a big hand.