Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I particularly want to thank you for furnishing us the most able executive, I think, that we have in the White House--Mrs. Bess Clements Abell, a Kentucky girl, who walks with kings and prime ministers and never loses the common touch to the extent but what she can lecture the President.

Context

Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport, Louisville, Kentucky.

07/22/1966

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