Lyndon Johnson actually said...

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows

Larry O'Brien will be the boss of a department that has 600,000 employees.

Our old friend Jim Farley is one of several Irishmen who have served this country with great distinction as Postmaster General.

It was about 53 years ago that I mailed my first letter from this post office.