Lyndon Johnson actually said...

So it gives me great pleasure and it is a high privilege today to ask those of you, our friends in this country, together with our guests to join in a toast to a reformist 20th century monarch, His Imperial Majesty and the Empress Farah.

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Toasts of the President and the Shah of Iran

06/04/1964

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