The President's News Conference
09/20/1966
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
I want to thank you for your efforts.
In doing that we cut last year's deficit in half.
To you who have given so freely and so fully to your Nation's welfare, your President commends you and salutes you and thanks you.
There is one good thing about lightning hitting your wife's plane--it put her back to riding with me again!