 delighted to be standing in Johnson Square. For me to feel at home here in the South, Georgia's range runs strong in my family and my husband's great grandfather, Jesse Johnson, lived in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. I'm well aware of a historic setting in which we are and I wish that this was a leisurely sort of trip that I could go and see some of your elegant old homes. I've heard it said and I agree that the South is not a matter of geography but a place of the heart. And Georgia is not only a state, it is a distinctive part of America. America grows up smacking its lips over Georgia brawler chicken and Georgia peanut butter, drinking Coca-Cola, and I certainly don't want to leave out towny town. Started yesterday depends on the made of Georgia hardwood. Savannah itself is typical of the American melting pot. It grew from the English under Oglethorpe, Salzburgers under Baron Von Ritt, a colony of wealthy and cultivated Jews, a body of New England Puritans, French refugees from San Domingo, and waves of Irish, fleeing famine. All have contributed their eager, fearless blood to the children of Savannah. The texture of American life is woven here. John Wesley Preach Chair, Woodrow Wilson married here. Eli Whitney and Benita Cotton-Jane near here and Juliet Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, is buried here. The future is here too. The 11 dams approved by Congress will give the Savannah River Basin immense power resources. And as you well know, the Clark Hill Project will soon mean year-round navigation between Augusta and Savannah, giving the interior of Georgia direct trade routes to the ports of the world. Georgia is a state of tall men. It is a state of men of strength like Congressman Carl Vinson and Senator Dick Russell, the State Dean Russ that my husband has been there. And from your own Senator Russell, Lyndon learned the complex mechanics of the Senate, which made it possible for him to serve as Democratic leader among our most valued friendships, personal and political, for those with Senator George and Miss Lucy to have moral support today from Mrs. Sanders, the wife of your governor, and Betty Talmadge, wife of your Senator, Herman Talmadge, to have them with me to advise our so many wonderful Georgians. Was to say to you that to this Democratic candidate our president and his wife, the South is a respected and valued and beloved part of this country, widely known as a busy and active man. But he is also something else. In this campaign, he is a tomorrow man, a builder man, a going ahead who do not wish to be left in the slack waters of history like solitary grounded ships in the restless, unslable flow and flood of change. In his acceptance speech, the president said, this is a dangerous and difficult world in which we live. I promise no easy answers, but I do promise this. I pledge the firmness to defend freedom, the strength to support that firmness and a constant patient effort to move the world toward lasting peace, to choose our leader. In doing so, we make a constant choice in shaping our personal destiny. Thomas Jefferson said, let the people know the facts and they will decide wisely. History has proven him right. I believe in our president and I believe in your right to choose and your wisdom to do so wisely. Thank you.