 My name is Larry Temple. I currently serve as the chairman of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. I had the great and good fortune in 1967 and 1968 to serve as special counsel to President Lyndon Johnson in the White House. And in that capacity, I had the opportunity to come to this office. What we're looking at right now is a replica of the Oval Office in the White House. This one is seven-eight size, but it is configured and furnished in just the way it was when President Johnson was here. We did not have at the time communication through the Internet and electronic communication that was available to all of us. But what the President did have and what the world had was ticker tape communication. Somebody at a central associated press location, for example, would type in what the news of the moment was. What you have here were AP and Reuters and in the cabinet down here were the actual machines that brought the news up and the machine would bring that news across this so-called ticker tape and on a roll it would come up on a roll until it got here and then it would roll across and the President would see what that news was. But as I say, the one thing that was constant about LBJ was he was the most voracious consumer of news of any human being I've ever known. He wanted to know what the news was. He wanted it instantaneously. He wanted it fully and so sometimes he would be looking at this ticker tape and he would see something that was of great interest to him and it was not uncommon for him to get down on his knees and open this cabinet up and look at that ticker tape just as it was coming off the roller. He wasn't going to wait for the 30 seconds for it to roll up to come across the screen up here and he would get down there and watch that news as it came up. There were many similar moments of history that occurred in this room. I wasn't a party to most of them but I was present on one that's particularly memorable to me and that is a speech that LBJ gave to the nation on national television on March 31, 1968. That was a Sunday night and people were expecting a speech about Vietnam and the President didn't disappoint but then it was something that most people didn't know and the American public didn't expect. The President said that he did not think he should spend any of his time during the rest of his term in politics that he wanted to devote his time in trying to get peace in Vietnam and therefore he would not seek and he would not accept the nomination of his party for another term. Everyone, everybody assumed that he would be running for reelection and I think that he could have gotten re-elected. He thinks he would have gotten re-elected with all the strife that was going on in this country and the riots he very well might have caused even greater turmoil in the country but he opted not to do it and he was seated right here at this desk and I remember Lady Bird Johnson and his two daughters were here and other than the camera people and all he was pretty much of a vacated office as soon as he finished speaking the office filled up with people but that was for me probably the most memorable event that took place in this office during my short but wonderful tenure with the President.