Lyndon Johnson: “They tell me--I asked Nancy Gore this afternoon--someone told me that I was running about 55-45 down here in Tennessee.”

I have had my troubles with the press.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.

The mood at the White House this evening is one of cautious optimism.

Americans do not bow. They salute, but they do not bow.