Statement by the President on the Death of Representative Clarence J. Brown of Ohio.
I AM distressed to learn of the death of Representative Clarence Brown, a distinguished public servant and my longtime colleague in the Congress.
Representative Brown was a principal sponsor of the Commissions on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, known as the Hoover Commissions. To the work of those Commissions he devoted his great energies and his dedication to good Government.
He was a strong partisan, in the best tradition of American politics. He was also a patriot who served his country faithfully during the quarter century of his tenure in Congress.
Note: Representative Brown served in the House of Representatives from January 3, 1939, until his death.
The President's statement was released by Bill D. Moyers, Special Assistant to the President, at his news conference at 4 p.m. on Monday, August 23, 1965. It was not made public in the form of a White House press release.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Statement by the President on the Death of Representative Clarence J. Brown of Ohio. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/240881