Lyndon Johnson: “After you get through, if you are not too tired, you can put in a lick or two for Hubert Humphrey and me.”

Your country thanks you.

We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.

Thirty-four years ago, I came here as the sun was setting late one evening and I was married to a lovely lady in this city in St. Mark's Church, in downtown San Antonio.

Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.