 will the band please stop stop the music come on up now ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen may we have your attention may we have your attention please we are happy to be here in this lovely city in the great commonwealth of virginia i've known about suffix since i first went to congress many years ago i'm congressman hail bogs from louisiana my privilege to introduce some of your my privilege to introduce to you uh your distinguished officials of your state whom you know so well but let me say first that this is the lady bird special named an honor of the great face lady of the united states of america it's a democratic train and it's a happy train made up of people who have confidence in the united states and in its future under president linden bane johnson now let me uh present to you one of your famous sons the lieutenant governor of the great commonwealth of virginia who in turn will present the governor of virginia and he in turn will present the face lady of our land i present to you your own native son the lieutenant governor of the state of virginia lieutenant govern governor godwin thank you congressman bogs ladies and gentlemen may we have your attention please may may we have your attention please this is a great day for suffolk and the tri county area we welcome all of you to the peanut capital of the world we are particularly honored that this great train with the first lady of our land and her daughter aboard and with many other prominent dignitaries has found it possible to stop in our city today this is a great democratic team and you are here today in support of this great effort it is my pleasure at this time to introduce the dignitaries that have ridden aboard the lady bird special from petersburg to suffoc today the honorable and mrs surely t holland the honorable and mrs major t benton he is a mayor of suffolk musta theodore maric commission of revenue of suffolk musta william wellington jones commonwealth's attorney of nansom and county musta and mrs john henry powell clerk of the court musta robert e parker chairman of the nansom and county democratic committee musta moody staling's commonwealth's attorney of the city of suffolk musta and mrs forest s warmock of the chamber of commerce of suffolk the honorable william v roland's and mrs roland's he is our state senator mrs laura hl more vice chairman of the democratic committee of suffolk the honorable and mrs dotton debbie jones mayor of the city of franklin musta marshal andrew's of suffolk honorable and mrs william p griffin chairman of the democratic committee of the city of suffolk and now ladies and gentlemen it is my happy privilege to present to this great audience and i think that i can safely say it is the largest in the history of suffolk to present to you people virginia's chief executive the honorable albert s s harrison and mrs harrison governor mrs harrison my fellow virginians isn't it great to be a virginian today and to be in suffolk and i hope that you will not miss the significance of the fact that we wanted to expose a very wonderful lady and her delightful daughter to the grace and the charm and the hospitality of virginia and we did that by bringing them through the fourth congressional district beginning at petersburg and ending at suffolk my friends it is good to be with you it is a wonderful occasion today we play a host to a very grand person and she will be introduced in just a minute thank you governor harrison and now ladies and gentlemen in the true suffolk franklin nansumon ilawate and southampton tradition let's give a mighty roar of welcome to the first lady of our land mrs linden b johnson thank you everybody this is the most marvelous welcome to have sunshine and to have somewhat so many friends turning out to see us what could there possibly be to to make us happier except maybe about five weeks later on i've had a grand time coming through your beautiful state today in company with governor and mrs albert s harrison and lieutenant governor and and mrs mills godwin and every step of the way your greatest booster the lieutenant governor has been telling me about suffolk and about peanuts so i wasn't surprised when i began to see those signs that said suffolk the peanut capital of the world and thank you for all those nice signs out there for us i don't think there's any secret why i am on this trip i came here to talk about my husband and his record my husband asked me to bring you his greetings he would like to be here himself but the massive job of the presidency doesn't stop day by day and it is what he must put first so i am coming to visit some of the states that i know best in many of which i spent summer times and vacation times of my childhood ten months ago on a dreadful day that shook our country my husband became your president since then he has tried with all that is in him to keep our country on a steady course of economic prosperity to face the world with firm strength and to seek practical ways to help those americans still in need there are many things in which we can all take satisfaction this is the 44th straight month in which our economy has remained strong and the danger of those once frightening headlines about panamo and guantanamo and zanzibar has been reduced by tireless patient effort there are problems ahead and he promises no easy solutions but the president's years of working for the people of this country 12 years in the house of representatives 12 in the senate of the united states three in the vice presidency plus what a wife can only describe as a lot of determination energy and devotion to the job these will all help to solve the problems that face our country i'm proud of his record i hope that you will want to continue it and i thank you it's a sign that says we must go but first i want you to meet our daughter linda bird i particularly want to thank all you young people for coming out here i feel a special kinship to you because i'm a young person too young people have always been leaders and this year is not going to be any different your own thomas jefferson was only 33 when he helped write the when he wrote the declaration of independence and now in the world over half the people are under 25 in 15 years over half the people of united states will be under 25 so we all have our place in the sun not only here today but in the future and i want to thank you particularly for all these wonderful signs i noticed one or two over here for me and i'm particularly exuberant to see somebody cheering for me because mother gets all the lines and i'm glad that we live in a country where even a few people who may not like us can at least put up their signs too because in our heart we know who's right thank you