Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It is both a great privilege and a great personal pleasure to welcome you to our country and to this Capital City.

Remarks of Welcome at the White House to President Orlich of Costa Rica

06/29/1964

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I do want you to know that you have the gratitude and the appreciation of your President.

But only in America could a Senator be the guest of honor at a cloak-and-dagger dinner.

I hope that you will give some thought to that.

So I came here tonight to echo this combination of both personal esteem and institutional respect.