 for a minute ladies and gentlemen we've had a very distinguished group of your citizens from a husky and other places on the train now they are leaving now we want to give you their name could we have your attention could we have your attention please I want to introduce this group of distinguished visitors that got on with us at Norfolk I'm Luther Hodges Democrat from North Carolina Mrs. Mrs. C. D. Langston, Mrs. Mrs. Langston, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Allen Powell, Mrs. Russell Martin, Mr. Joseph Bryant, Mrs. Robert Jernigan, Mr. W. H. Harrell, Mr. W. I. Johnson, Mrs. P. B. Woodley, Mr. Ellie Mazzell, Mrs. Richard Vann, Mrs. J. William Copeland, Mrs. George Kittrell, Mrs. Roundtree, Mrs. Mrs. John Jeacons, Mrs. Underwood, Mrs. Merrill Evans, Mrs. Mrs. TC Joyner and Mrs. Lucille Beasley. So we have quite a many please I want to present now a distinguished member of Congress from Louisiana the honorable Hale Boggs to make an introduction. Hale Boggs thank you very much Secretary Hodges ladies and gentlemen this is a magnificent Democratic gathering and it foreshadows the fact that President Johnson will carry the South this time stronger than any Democrat since 1944. I have heard that the candidacy of Senator Goldwater is based on what he calls the Southern strategy. Well let me say to you that as this train moves through the South having aboard the face lady of the land this train the lady bird special Mrs. Johnson who is as southern as anybody can get and the president of the United States to face southerners since the war between the states we in the South from Virginia to Texas are not thinking about not reelected him on November 3rd. I have a pleasant task here today to introduce to you someone whom you have known for many years. You know him as your friend as your congressman as a man who has waked for you and for the great state of North Carolina for Eastern North Carolina for the tobacco people of peanut people the cotton people the maritime industry of North Carolina more than any man in the history of this state and this country. It's my honor to present to you the congressman from this district my friend with whom I serve in the House of Representatives the Honorable Herbert Bonner. My friends I'm honored and proud here today to be on the train that's bringing the face lady of the land into North Carolina. I'm proud of the great turnout of democracy that is here today and I'm proud of the many honors that you have paid me throughout the year. It is grand it is grand and thrilling to see so many North Carolinians here today who will support the Democratic ticket from Lyndon Johnson to all down the line and to build up the greatest Democratic majority we've ever had in North Carolina. First to present my dear wife Mrs. Bonner. Next honor to present a most beautiful lady of North Carolina the wife of our next governor Mrs. Dan Moore. This is a thrilling and wonderful experience and we are so delighted to see all of these wonderful tar heels here to greet the first lady of the United States. We love all of you. And now it is my happy privilege to present one of the bells of North Carolina Mrs. Dan Moore Jr. I have the honor now and a great pleasure to present the mayor of Ahoske Mr. Charles Peart. As mayor of Ahoske it is my pleasure to welcome the wife of the president of the United States Ms. Lyndon B Johnson and her daughter Linda. It is also my pleasure to welcome the distinguished guests that are accompanying her here today. Thank you all for coming. Now if a band will kindly withhold their music it is a distinct pleasure to have on this train the junior senator from North Carolina every Jordan who is making a great place for North Carolina in the United States Senate. Thank you very much Herbert. Hello to all of you. I'll be back to see you soon. Both the Democratic ticket straight all the way down bottom to top top to bottom. Ladies and gentlemen and my friends and fellow North Carolinians back through the years the great state of North Carolina has given its people the most wonderful government than any state in the union and as good as any state in the union we have had great governors. I have the honor today to present to you one who load know you know one who you love and one who has worked for long years for the prosperity of North Carolina for the forward march of North Carolina. He's worked for the farmer. He's worked for the tobacco farmer the peanut farmer and every farm of the agricultural program. He's been a great governor and we'll miss him when the year turns. I have the honor now to present one of North Carolina's great governors. A distinguished senator the honorable Terry Sanford. We couldn't have picked a better place to start off the North Carolina Lady Bird special than a husky and we do welcome Mrs. Johnson and she has for us a message of goodwill a message of great hope and a message that I know will mean so much to all of America. But before she delivers that message I want us to give her a message. I want you to let her know how we are going to support President Johnson in November. And now it is my pleasure to welcome to North Carolina and to present to you the first lady of the land Lady Bird Johnson and Mrs. Sanford Mrs. Dan Moore Senator and Mrs. Jordan Congressman and Miss Bonner and all you friends out there. I just can't tell you how happy this makes me and how wonderful it is to be greeted by such a big crowd. I know we have kept you waiting and I'm sorry but we kept you waiting for a mighty good reason. We found so many people back up the railroad tracks that we wanted to greet and the crowds everywhere all through Virginia. This delightful day have been wonderful. I understand a husky began as a railroad town and I was advised the best thing I could do was to bring along a train load of passengers what I've done my best. I'm sorry we can't stay long enough to visit nearby to one college. I see they've come to visit us good and East Carolina College. Some of my closest relatives are students and they tell me mother if you really want to make a hit visit all the schools at class time. We tried to today but we got behind on the schedule. No one who knows anything about North Carolina. No one who has met its great boosters like Secretary Luther Hodges, Governor Terry Sanford and Congressman Herbert Bonner can fail to appreciate the fact that long ago North Carolina put education as its number one goal. When I look at the roster of colleges there are in this state. I remember a Texas governor never known for his willingness to budget money for the state universities who once warned his legislature you've gone hog wild about education. Well I'm glad Carolina has gone hog wild about education. You have been a beacon light to the rest of the south and there isn't a mother or father here who doesn't hope that her children will be able to prepare themselves in high schools and colleges for a prosperous future. Every child is entitled to an education. Between 1960 and 1963 the North Carolina average per capita income has increased two hundred and forty five dollars which is thirteen dollars above the national average. And I would be remiss if I didn't mind you that those have been democratic years. I enjoyed so much meeting and riding through the state with your many able public officials. We have come here today not just because we enjoy an autumn train ride across this Southland but because we believe that North Carolinians are interested in good government. Farsighted government and we believe that the party with the most heart the most vision the most stability is the Democratic Party. All of us are here to say what I suspect you have already guessed that we hope you will place your confidence in the president again in Dan Moore, in Bob Scott, in Herbert Bonner and right on down the line. Every one of you and I want you to know our daughter Linda Bird. Thank all these young people for coming today because I feel that I represent you and you represent me. I understand I was preceded by Buffalo Bill by a few years. But seriously I hope that I can enlist all your aid. My generation is the volunteer generation and we need you to volunteer to help us now. Thank you. Ms. Johnson on behalf of Ahoske and the Roanoke-Chuan section and the first district we wish to present you the Yellow Rose of Texas. May I please thank you. They are beautiful. They remind me of what spent a most wonderful start and a beginning into your great state. May I may I thank all of you wonderful people for making North Carolina as usual the first and the biggest crowd we've had and we are all so happy and we thank you bands for coming. You can start playing because we must be going. Thank you a million. And I want to thank I want to thank everybody for coming out and welcoming the first lady of the land. I want to present to you two of you are a lady from Roxabelle Mr. Jack Powell who used to pitch on the Carolina baseball team and his wife the White House physician Dr. Janet Travelle. Ahoske has beat them all. Thank you much.