 Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for being late We have had a busy day today We have covered the great state of Georgia. I might say to you that This train the Lady Badge special left Washington three days ago, which has been a sentimental journey Through the whole South We have had Magnificent crowds everywhere because Mrs. Johnson the face lady of our land is one of us a Southerner just like you and like me and I want all of you to welcome my hit This is off. This is our face stop in the great state of Florida. We're happy to be here We are happy to be here and our time is limited We are late and it's my pleasure to present to you one of the great ladies of this country Mrs. Linman Johnson Friends y'all are mighty nice to wait for us The reason we're so late is because all the way from Washington to Florida We've been finding bigger and bigger enthusiastic crowds all along the way And it's just hard to make time. I wanted to make this trip because this is a part of the country that I know and love Ever since I was from the time that I was five years old till I was 21 I visited ever summer in the neighboring state of Alabama and many times I visited in Florida and I wanted to come and tell our friends here that we value them. We appreciate them. We need them. We thank them My husband London came to be your president ten months ago under the most tragic Circumstances and since then he's had three things on his mind for all you mommers and poppers and all you children the things that he's wanted most is to keep our country strong and At peace because that is what means everything for the future of all of us and next He's tried to keep this country on a course of stable prosperity And I think most of us know that we are doing pretty good on that now and thirdly He wants to seek for Compassionate imaginative ways to help those Americans who are still in need I want my southern friends to know that we thank you for believing in us for working for us for helping us I'm sorry. We are this late and Thank you, that's the kind of greeting we've been hearing all along the way and God bless you for saying that Now and now just just for a wave and a word. I want my Lisa Banes to say hello I Just wanted to come up here and thank all of you for all these great homemade signs and tell you how much it Really does mean to us that you took the time to care And I just hope the kind of enthusiasm that you've shown here today can be channel this fall into a Eventful and hopefully successful campaign. Thank you Fine citizens Mr. Genevieve soles who is a district chairman of the Democratic Committee and she's going to make a presentation to the face Lady of our land Ms. Soles on behalf of the people of Jefferson County whose heritage democracy and Southern tradition dates back a hundred and fifty years We would like to present these casages to you and your daughter These flowers were picked from one of our home gardens this morning and we pride ourselves on these beautiful Well-blumming blossoms Gentlemen let me present one or two people who are here on the train with us and who have been with us all along We have a distinguished secretary of commerce the former governor of the great state of North Carolina The honorable Luther Hodges Luther Luther take a bow Where's the governor of Tennessee? Well beautiful Ellington as well as two and many other people now ladies and gentlemen We're sorry that we're late, but let me say this to you as we Prepare to leave because we're doing Tallahassee and your congressman and many others are getting aboard the train now This has been a wonderful trip. I Come from Louisiana. I'm as southern as anybody standing out there in that crowd, and I'm proud of it Middle Johnson was born and weird in the south and President Johnson is the first southern president we have had since the war between the states And do you know do you know that states like Maine and Vermont and you Hampshire? Which have never voted Democratic are going to vote overwhelmingly for Lyndon Johnson Do you know that Arizona is going to vote for Lyndon Johnson? Do you know do you know that Texas is going to vote for Lyndon Johnson? Do you have any doubt about Florida Southern state? God bless you. It's wonderful to be with you and goodbye and good night and thank you for coming