 All right, come on up here and we'll just say it. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Beauford Alley Dunn, a native Mississippian that's happy to come back home riding the Ladybird Special. It's my great privilege to introduce to you a native of this county, a native of Mississippi, the great Congressman Bog of Louisiana, Congressman Bog. Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, Senator Eastland, Senator Stennis, distinguished mayors and officials of the great state of Mississippi, this has been a happy trip. Four days ago, on a bright, sun-shiny morning, this valiant lady and her daughter, Linda, and now her lovely daughter, Lucy, left Alexandria, Virginia. And for four days, we have toured the Southland and everywhere we have been, she has been received with graciousness, with friendliness because she is of the South and part of the South and she made this trip because she wanted to make it herself. I am particularly happy to be here at Edgewater in Harrison County, Mississippi, where I grew up. I see my mother and my sister here in the audience. Hello, God bless you. Let me say that I am proud of Mississippi. I am proud to be a Mississippian. Proud to have been reared in this great state. And let me say to you, Father, that we are not conceding any states, not a single one, including Mississippi. I can tell you this, that all over this country, in Maine and Vermont and New Hampshire and even in Arizona, President Johnson is going to carry it. And I just don't believe, I just don't believe there's going to be a state in the union that he doesn't carry come November 10. Now, it's my pleasure to present to you for a word the senior senator from this great state, Jim Eastland. My good friend. We are certainly glad to welcome Mrs. Johnson to a great state and a great people. And now the distinguished junior senator, John Stennis, your friend and my friend, John. Folks, it's wonderful to be here with you, to be here when Lady Bird comes, and we want to welcome her, and we also want to welcome our daughter, Lucy. Good luck. Now, for just a, we're running late, unfortunately, and that's why we're hurrying. Some folks to take a bow here. A senator, E.K. Collins, a Democratic National Commitment from a great state of Mississippi and Middlest Collins. I've got some others to introduce here. I'm a stellar Democrat. God bless you. Mayor Geyser Biloxi, where are you, Mr. Mayor? And Mayor Meadows of Gulfport. Let's come aboard. We'll hear from you in just a minute. And now, ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you the distinguished governor of the state of Mississippi, the Honorable Paul Johnson, who will welcome this lovely lady, the speciality of the land to Mississippi, Governor Johnson. Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow Mississippians, it is with a real sense of pleasure that, on behalf of the official family of this state, that we welcome this honored woman to Mississippi. I'm delighted that Mississippi once again has arisen to the occasion, and are here to honor the First Lady of this land. We're delighted to have her, regardless here in America, of any political opinions or differences. The people of this country, and the love and devotion of the people of Mississippi, transcends all political questions. We are honored to have this fine lady in our state. I would like at this time to present my wife, who believes, as I do, that in early days when Mississippians went to Texas, they're still there, and they, too, love more than anything else, the yellow robes of Texas. My wife. Thank you very much. I would love to present these roses from Mississippi, the hospitality state, to the First Lady of our land, and I hope that she will take the most pleasant memories with her as she continues this journey and throughout the campaign. No campaign is an easy one. We know we've been there, and I hope that she will take pleasant memories with her of this one. Thank you, Senator Eastland, Senator Sanders, Senator Johnson, and your lovely wife, Mrs. Johnson. This is Johnson Foreo, Lucy, Paul, Lady Bird, and what's your face? And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present the distinguished chairman of the state committee, the state chairman of Magnificent Young Man in charge of the campaign here, Mr. Douglas Wynn, who will introduce the face lady, Mr. Wynn. Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson. It's wonderful to be here in Mississippi and to have with me on the platform Governor and Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Bidwell Adams and then two of my husband's long-time good friends, your own senators, Senator Stennis and Senator Eastland. I thank them all hearing the end of a long trip that has been a journey of the heart through a part of the country I love. I want to say how many memories have been stirred. I have had happy encounters with old friends and joyful reunions with kin folks. I hear that the teacher who taught me at St. Mary's long ago, Mrs. Forrest, is down close at hand in the audience. I wonder if Mrs. Forrest would rate Mrs. Forrest Miller would raise her hand. Miss Davis, when I used to know, Miss Claudia. I want to thank all the public-spirited citizens who joined in making this such a warm welcome to Mississippi. In all my travels through the south, I have been looking forward to reaching this beautiful resort area with its old world charm and its lovely gardens and its delicious seafood, the Mississippi Gulf Coast area. I want to tell you that everywhere I've been these four days, I have been impressed by the economic gains and I know here in your own locality what a good neighbor and a strong economic help Keisler Field is with its population, civilian and military, of more than 17,000. The average Mississippian is receiving $270 additional spendable income more per year now than he did at the beginning of 1961. Of course, this is an average and not everyone's income has gone up that much, but it is dollars and cents evidence of good economic management by this Democratic administration whose objectives and programs, including the poverty program, have been to help assure all Americans share more equitably in these gains in the future. Throughout my travels in the South I have been thinking of some words spoken by President Franklin Roosevelt. He told us the only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. I have found doubts in the South but I have also found faith. I made this journey because I wanted to say to you that to this Democratic president and his wife, the South is a respected, valued and beloved part of this country. The men of the South have been close advisors and trusted friends of my husbands during his 12 years in the House of Representatives and his 12 years in the Senate. Ten months ago, my friends, 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. In his acceptance speech, the president said, this is a dangerous and difficult world we live in. I promise no easy answers but I do promise this. I pledge the firmness to defend freedom, the strength to support that firmness. Patient effort to move the world toward peace instead of war. It is our privilege 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 I believe in your wisdom to do so wisely. I thank you for welcoming me so warmly to Mississippi, all of you who worked to bring this wonderful meeting together and now because I see so many young people in the crowd I would like to ask our own young daughter Lucy Baines to step up and say hello to you. I'm proud to be here and I'm proud mostly of the fact that there are so many young people in the crowd because by so many young people being here it brings to me that they are showing they are willing to accept the responsibility of being an active part of this campaign that we want to learn and that we want to understand our government and how it works. My only hope is this that we can take the unique educational advantages that we have had and the reasoning the kind of reasoning that we have derived from these educational advantages and put them together to make our decisions making our decisions only on reasoning and not emotionalism for soon, probably sooner than we would like we are going to have to take the reins of government into our own hands and the kind of leaders we choose today will make the kind of country we will have to lead tomorrow. Thank you. President Johnson for some presentations may I present the Mayor of Biloxity to make a presentation. Mayor Geist. Where is Mayor Geist. Thank you so much Representative Boggs. Governor and all of our distinguished folks present. I am certainly delighted to join with all of our Fairfine Mississippians We are a state of hospitality, where hospitality is a way of life, and we're proud of it, and proud to have such lovely folks with us. And it's a pleasure right now to present to Mrs. Johnson a plaque which has on it remembrances of the many fine things of which she spoke just recently. Good to have you with us, Mrs. Johnson. And now the representative of Mayor Meadows right here, Commissioner Clark. Right quick, Commissioner. Mrs. Johnson, on behalf of the city of Gulfport and entire Gulf Coast, we want to tell you that we're proud of you. And on behalf of the cities in the Gulfport, we want to appoint you Honorary citizens of the city of Gulfport. Thank you. Now, ladies and gentlemen, may I present my mother who lives here. Take a bow please. Thank you. And now, ladies and gentlemen, one or two other distinguished guests. Mrs. McKethan, the wife of our distinguished Louisiana governor who has just gotten aboard. Where are you, Mrs. McKethan? Come in and take a bow and say a word. Right quick. I'm just very, very happy to be here and to take part in your welcome to Mrs. Johnson. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I believe I introduced Chairman Biddle Adams. Where's Biddle? Okay, Biddle. And now, the distinguished Union Senator from Louisiana has just gotten aboard. Senator Long, rest of us say a word to these fine Mississippians. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, standing in the back of this car, I couldn't help but feel proud to see the greatest First Lady in the history of America perform in Mississippi. And I'm especially proud, I'm especially proud that she is a Southern First Lady of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, I was born in Reardon Tree Port, Louisiana. That was the area where Lady Bird Johnson used to buy her clothes when she was a little girl. We found old people of these Texas to be wonderful neighbors and wonderful people. And I want to say to you young folks and you young people, remember what you're seeing here today. You've seen a lady perform the way a First Lady of the world ought to perform and we're proud of her. Thank you very much. Everybody aboard that's going aboard, I see your photographers out here. Ladies and gentlemen, we have another minute here as we prepare to leave. Hi, Mr. Mayor, come up here. I didn't introduce you. This is Mayor Francis Hacey, isn't it? And you too, Mayor. Come here. Get off. This is Mayor Francis Hacey, an old friend of mine from past Christian. And this is Bob Reeves, my own Mayor from Long Beach, Mississippi. Say something, Bob. We welcome the lady to the Gulf Coast. You've got to get off now. Now, ladies and gentlemen, as we prepare to leave, let me introduce to you, come here, Luther, the distinguished Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges. Say something here, Luther. Thank you very much indeed and thank somebody for putting up that sign back there. We're very happy indeed to see such a wonderful crowd here. And I want to tell you a second of commerce, and I think you're going to decide this next when you go into the booth on the basis of how well you're doing, because every family in Mississippi and the country is $1,200 better off than they were four years ago. I'm very happy indeed to see all of you here. Ladies and gentlemen, you are very wonderful to come out here and let me say to you in all sincerity that all over this nation of ours, the President of the United States, the face Southern President since the war between the states, has been getting the warmest reception that any man ever got. Are we ready to go? Let's go. I've got some Louisiana friends here I want you to meet. Here's Ellen Bryan Moore, our registrar of the State Land Office. Congressman Jimmy Marsden, all the way with LBJ. Goodbye and God bless you.