October 16, 1964
Dear Mr. President:
Mrs. Johnson joins me in sending our heartiest congratulations on your eightysecond birthday. We wish you many more years in which you can lead and inspire the great Irish nation and lend your wise counsel to us all.
Sincerely,
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
[His Excellency Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, Dublin]
Lyndon B. Johnson, Message to President de Valera on the Occasion of His 82d Birthday. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/242165