 It's a great pleasure, personal pleasure, as well as an official pleasure, to be on this trip and to welcome the gracious lady that we do to South Carolina. I know what South Carolina is going to do on November the 3rd. We are going to re-elect, no I say elect, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States District Judges and the State of South Carolina and the Green Riders. Senator T. Allen, the Green Jr. and his charming wife Virginia. Mrs. J. L. Cannon, Vice Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party of South Carolina. Mrs. Cannon, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell Graham, Mrs. Walden J. McClown, the wife of the elect daughter of Mrs. Congressional President, Mr. and Mrs. John Bleaker, Mr. Bleaker's President of the Young Democrats of this town. Mrs. Richard Bravo, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bailey. I see in our audience, the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Mr. McClown, the one that's coming for the Ed's Junior, the board chairman of the Johnson for President movement in this county, Mrs. Jaco Keith, the board chairman of the Young Democratic class, and Mrs. Edward Buckle, co-chairman of the Johnson Girls movement. Mr. Bernard R. Maybank Jr., chairman of the Democratic Party of Charleston County. Ladies and gentlemen, probably one of the most distinguished local personages that we have in the community is the man that made this shopping center possible and who is on our platform, Mr. Edward Cronchberg. At this time, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to turn the meeting over to one of the outstanding members of Congress of the United States of America, Mr. Hale Boggs of the state of Louisiana, the Democratic whip in the Congress of the United States and one of the real forces in this country, Mr. Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Democrat, I am very happy indeed to be here in one of the great Democratic states of the United States of America, especially happy, I am especially happy to be in the home district of Mendel Rivers, one of the great congressmen in the United States of America. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have a great honor here tonight. Too close. Which one of these mics is live? This one? Can you hear me now? I notice that there's some young people here who have no sense of American democracy and who obviously don't come from the south where I come from, where we were born to be kites who seem to occupy that time with a chat, more repetition of Hitler than anything in America. This is an American gathering and not a Nazi gathering and I'm very happy indeed, my friends, that on this platform are some of the great Americans of all times from the south. Gentlemen, you know one of the great states in the Union, one of the original 18 states, one of the states that signed the Declaration of Independence, one of the states that signed the insisting on the Bill of Rights with the great state of South Carolina and everybody on this platform tonight is a Southerner, president of the United States today and November 30th is a Southerner and I'm always sorry that we have some young people who don't understand America and the American democratic processes. Having said that, let me move on to more important subjects. Now let me introduce to you one of the great congressmen from the state of South Carolina, my colleague Brian Dawn. Well you Brian, come up here and say a few words. Congressman Boggs, my fellow Democrats, I'm a Democrat, I'm a South Carolinian and I'm an American. I want to join my distinguished and able colleague, the honorable Mendel Rivers in welcoming to his district and to the state of South Carolina congressmen and Mrs. Boggs, Governor and Mrs. Luther Hodges and most of all the most gracious, charming, magnificent first lady in the history of the United States, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. So I want to welcome to South Carolina and join my great friend Mendel Rivers in welcoming to the greatest, most historic city of our state her two charming daughters Linda Bird and Lucy. Ladies and gentlemen, she's not on the program but I must introduce to you a lovely lady, the face lady of your state who is really responsible for this wonderful reception that the face lady of our land has received. The wife of your governor, Virginia Russell, come over here and say a word. It's always a great joy to come back to Charleston and it's a particular joy to come back and to be with the first lady, the beautiful, the kind, the gracious, the lovely first lady of the world, Ms. Lyndon Johnson. Our great section of the nation has at least two distinguished members of the cabinet of President Johnson, one being the distinguished Georgia and the Secretary of State, Secretary Ross. The other being the distinguished North Carolinian, your neighbor, the former governor of North Carolina who has been with us throughout this trip who is the co-chairman of the trip, the honorable Luther Hodges of North Carolina. Mr. Chairman, Governor Russell, Ms. Russell, I'm going to ask, I'm going to ask this particular group over here if they will not keep quiet for about two or three minutes please. Will you keep quiet over here for two or three minutes? There's something I would like to say in a very short time to South Carolinian. I'm very proud of South Carolina. I love its people. Mrs. Hodges' people came from Chesterfield County in South Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina having been born across the state line in Virginia. My father was a tenant tobacco farmer we later went into the cotton mill town and for many years served and worked in the cotton mill. I know something about what this situation means that we are facing in the south. Let me say this to you wonderful South Carolina people. Of course I'm sentimentally attached to you and to the South where I grew up and where it's meant so much to me. The Democratic Party has meant so much to me through the years. The Democratic Party means so much to South Carolina the whole South whether we like it or not and we're all proud. We are still a poor part of the country and have about two thirds of the per capita income of the rest of the nation. I simply want to make a very brief suggestion. I want to say that if you any of you in Charleston or anywhere else in South Carolina want to be Republicans and vote the Republican ticket regularly you go right ahead. But if you have the interest of South Carolina at heart at the present time there's only one way to vote and that is for Lyndon Johnson the whole Democratic ticket. I want to just say this you have here your wonderful Charleston Navy Yard. You have at Fort Jackson the other places many installations. You have 23,000 federal civilian employees in South Carolina and 63,000 military. You pay in to the federal government of this country per year 461 million dollars and South Carolina gets back 1 billion and 23 million dollars. If you want to be foolish go ahead and be foolish. But I ask you not to sentimentally and practically stay with the Democratic Party. Menzel Rivers who's going to be your distinguished chairman next year and come into one of the most powerful ones and stay with the Democratic Party which is a party of our fathers and a party of our future. Thank you very much. Gentlemen I have a distinct privilege of presenting to you one of the great ladies of one of your neighboring states she doesn't know that I'm going to call on her but I know she's here she's famous for a great many things including one of the finest hams that I've ever tasted she's the wife of a distinguished United States senator from Georgia Mrs. Hammond Talmage. Where are you Mrs. Talmage? Come up here and say something. It is to be here with you tonight to join in welcoming the most gracious and capable first lady this nation has ever seen. She's been my friend for a number of years and has been wonderful to me and I know you're going to be wonderful to her tonight. Thank you very much for letting me come. Go Lieutenant Governor, the honor of Bob McMahon, this wonderful crowd of including this group over from my left that I understand is trying to keep you from hearing what is being said. Never did I think we might have to apologize for the actions of any group in South Carolina. We do not tonight but we ask Mrs. Johnson and the others to overlook those that are trying to disrupt this session but we do welcome to South Carolina the first lady of America and her two charming daughters we are happy to have you here we have been with her throughout the day she has been well received everywhere and I want to commend Charleston and the low country for this wonderful throne of people that are here tonight thank you very much and now ladies and gentlemen one of the distinguished senators in the United States Senate Trove South Carolina the senior senator from the great state of South Carolina Senate to all at Johnson Congressman Bob, member of us, another distinguished guest I'm Democrat I'm glad to have this privilege to come to South Carolina and speak to you good people I'm proud that I am a Democrat. I want to introduce a lovely lady to you this is really a Johnson night in more ways than one a little while ago we just had four Jocins we had Mrs. Ole Johnson and Senator Ole Johnson and Mrs. Ladybird Johnson and Linda Bird Johnson but now we got Lucy Bird Johnson too so this is Johnson night in Charleston South Carolina one of the great cities of the world and I want to introduce to you Mrs. Ole Johnson the wife of the state chairman Yancy McLeod Yancy where are you this is the biggest evening South Carolina it's the first time a charming in our state on an occasion of this type I hope that she will let me say to you that that chant about we want Barry won't come to pass because you're not going to get him in Maine you're not going to get him in New Hampshire you're not going to get him in Vermont you're not going to get him in Arizona and you're not going to get him in South Carolina and you're not going to get him is because of mental relics do you know that the state of South Carolina and the city of Charleston South Carolina and let me tell you something I like Magnolia and Mint Jullips better than anybody I come from New Orleans just as old as Charleston but I'm glad that we got something beside Magnolia than Mint Jullips and we got it because we got some congressmen like Mendoza Revers why you got a payroll here in the Navy and in the Mission Marine and in federal installations of almost 200 million dollars a year Phoenix, Arizona next January and next Saturday the gold water to keep it for you Revers keep it for you and I'm happy to introduce to you one of the great congressmen of this country the next chairman of the most important committee in the Congress of the United States the Military Affairs Committee the Honorable Mendoza Revers of South Carolina that tonight that tonight can you hear me can you hear me now well listen I'm going to tell you something that you can't read in the newspapers Fort Jackson was to be closed their base was non-existent and the Navy yard was to be skeletonized I got a belly full of do I tell you something else to introduce the first lady of the United States and to tell you something else that you haven't read in the newspaper I didn't apologize when I got the veterans hospital down here that was scared you not to be I didn't apologize when I brought the Polaris base to Charleston the only one in the United States I didn't apologize the Polaris fleet of Charleston two submarine fleets 16 ships 20,000 military personnel I didn't apologize when I made it possible for Ed Kronsberg to build a largest shopping center in South Carolina right here with 175 million dollar federal payroll and this is the only thing that's keeping Charleston years ago this community was marked by self-respecting people whom I know who claim to be for Barry Goldwater I don't know who these people are responsible for bringing such as that to this meeting with a lot of fine people from all over the United States ought to be ashamed of him himself if he knows what manners is Congress of the United States I met Hale Bog from Louisiana already in the Congress of the United States was Lyndon Baines Johnson Lyndon Johnson and Mandel Rivers were assigned to the Naval Affairs Committee Lyndon Johnson helped me get every single project in this Navy yard the other day when the other day the other day when the Navy Yard was going to lose the Albemarle Vincent of Georgia who has been in the Congress 50 years I'm talking to you Navy Yard people now I'm talking to you Navy Yard people now I said I want the Albemarle for Charleston he said the only man can put it in that dried off is Lyndon Johnson he went to see the president the Albemalls and the dried off of the Navy Yard who were headed out of the gate have their jobs back and they can look forward to a happy new year the Charleston is living on the handouts from Washington I'm going to tell you this the Charleston's in the military figure the military picture the military program of the United States because we put Charleston there and it's going to be the Democrats who are going to keep it here if indeed you keep you wouldn't have this shopping center here if we should reduce or close this Navy Yard you wouldn't have this shopping center here if this air base were to be minimized or skeletonized as we are in the Democratic Party and Charleston is going to progress in the party that has put it in the position it's in tonight because we're going to keep it there first lady of the United States here tonight she's a southerner she has with her her two charming daughters good manners is always marked Charleston good manners is always marked this community and I am sure that you you who come out tonight to pay your respects to the first lady of the United States and her two charming daughters are glad to have this opportunity I'm privileged and consider it and indeed a privilege to have the opportunity to present to my people such a charming gracious and lovely southern lady as the first lady of the United States never in my memory have we had a southerner who was the first lady of the United States you know who she represents the only bastion of freedom in the world the only bastion the only bastion capable of preserving for humanity the freedom you know the only nation on earth the only nation on earth to whom the free world looks for freedom if there is to be freedom and tonight we have in our community the first lady of the United States the first lady of the world mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson whom I give to you my people with a great deal of pleasure with a singular privilege and with a warmth I'm sure you will reflect to her and her party as long as she remains in our community and I ask you to give her the best hand you've ever given anybody in the history of this community because she loves you as only a southerner can love a group of southerners mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson just don't touch after two days on a train it's nice to be standing on solid ground this is very solid ground for this historic city has been a center of commerce for more than 200 years but how it has changed and grown since I first saw its beautiful azalea gardens in 1938 I bring you greetings from my husband the president and the stops we have made have given me a chance to look at the south from a new perspective and I am refreshed by what I have seen the south and the whole nation at this election are the crossroads between past and future your wonderful city tells the story of what is happening I see great strength in Charleston it has its roots in the traditions and beauty of the past but it also has the will to move forward and take part in the future that is what makes Charleston such an exciting city there is no better symbol of the strength than this city's historic restoration it preserved for the future the beauty and the charm of Charleston and it stimulated economic growth as well it symbolizes to the partnership between local state and federal government between between private organizations and public action this is what took Charleston out of the dark days of the depression president roosevelt didn't do it alone he had many partners back in 1938 he asked my husband then a young congressman to help prepare a report on the economic conditions of the south because it was in those days the nation's number one economic problem today many parts of the south present one of the nation's proudest pictures of progress in burnett maybank who served this city well as mayor and served south carolina well as governor and senator he understood that cooperation between washington and south carolina was the key to progress with your leaders today in forging that partnership since he arrived in the senate four years before my husband did this of south carolina to be on this platform with governor russel and his wife my good friend virginia you know working with me on this whole trip to the south that she is as capable as she is lovely that our democratic victory will mean that your own mendal rivers will become chairman of the armed services committee of the house into your city linden served for eight years with mendal rivers on those committees of the house charged with maintaining the nation's defenses justice charlton has been the watchdog of the atlantic my husband with mendal rivers served as watchdog of our defenses the partnership i have been talking about works both ways it means economic vitality for this area and it means strength for our nation port facility for Polaris missiles put you on the front line about defenses and our effort to maintain a stable peace through strength and being the home port of the u.s.s. bainbridge one of the latest three nuclear surface ships and in the men who were part of its historic voyage around the world today many of your husbands are working on the album are at the navy yard so this partnership means jobs and a better community to live in it spells prosperity for charlton and at the same time greater economic and defense strength for the whole country this partnership takes federal resources and it takes men in washington who care about the people of the south their problems and their hopes and it takes citizen here at home with a vision of the future comes together peace is one and economic prosperity is another we have reached good and workable solutions in the past through this partnership ten months ago on most awful day lindon johnson became your president behind him laid the experience of 12 years in the house of representatives 12 in a minute and three years in the vice presidency into these last 10 months he has poured all the energy intellect and heart he has to try to keep our country prosperous to preserve peace and to plan for a greater america what sort of a president he will make because you have lived through these 10 months with us means we will face new challenges together with imagination and see you we draw on the past for strength but we do not plan to turn back miss lucy and miss lyndon to come up to the microphone and ask him to say a word to you i feel like a sincere privilege to have quite a few friends from charleston in washington with me i've heard that you great city where the cooper and the ashley form together to make the atlantic ocean and i've heard a lot of other great things and i just wanted to know that i'm thrilled that i finally had the chance to come and see the people that make charleston a great city