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Remarks at the Air force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., Upon Departing for Atlanta.

May 07, 1964

Ladies and gentlemen:

I am sorry that we are so late. I appreciate so very much your coming out here and giving us this great welcome. I don't know when I have ever spent a day that I have enjoyed more than the day that I have spent in the great State of North Carolina, with the fine people who have met us at every place that we have stopped.

I am sorry that we are running about 2 hours late. I had a dinner engagement in Atlanta, Ga., at 8:40, so we are going to have to move along.

But I do want you to know that I have enjoyed being with you. I think we have made some progress on our problem. I have had a long and fruitful, encouraging talk with your great Governor, Terry Sanford, with your able Senator, Sam Ervin, and Senator Jordan, with the Members of your congressional delegation, and I look forward to having them work with me and with members of my Cabinet in bringing about a program that will give the greatest good to the greatest number of all of our people.

I think that you are wonderful folks; you have been extremely gracious to me and my party, and my family. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish I had the time, because I do have the strength--I get strength from looking at you and from seeing you, and from shaking your hand--but I am late and I must run away.

Thank you so much, and I hope to see you in North Carolina before November.

Note: The President spoke at 9:10 p.m. During the course of his remarks he referred to Governor Terry Sanford and Senators Sam I. Ervin, It. and B. Everett Jordan, all of North Carolina.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks at the Air force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., Upon Departing for Atlanta. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/238743

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