The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch
12/31/1967
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He is that rarest of all visitors to this house--a man who is nonpolitical by law.
Men like this have seen our country through every crisis that has ever confronted our Nation.
I will make that announcement in due time.
I call upon them to cooperate fully with the Secretaries of Commerce and State in this important work.