Lyndon Johnson 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." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 22, 1966

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.

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Lyndon Johnson

Democratic · Texas

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presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport, Louisville, Kentucky.

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