Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"We look to the turkey to participate in this great Thanksgiving Day that is a national holiday, when all of us should take time out to thank our Maker and our country for our lands and our families, t..."

"I hope that every family in this land will be able not only to enjoy a bountiful Thanksgiving, because we have so much to be thankful for, but that they will be able to enjoy some good turkey."

"If we can do as well by the Nation as I believe we are doing by the Council, the country is in for the best times that we have ever had over the next several years."

"I can't be happy over Walter Heller's departure from Washington, leaving the Council, and at the same time I am very happy and, of course, couldn't be unhappy over the strength that he has left behind..."