Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This Commission will:--Provide a creative and helping hand to State, local, and private groups in their commemorations.

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Proposing the Establishment of an American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

03/09/1966

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This could destroy the usefulness of the preferred ship mortgage as a means of privately financing merchant ship construction--a method whic...

In substance, H.R. 162 could reduce the preferred mortgage holder virtually to the status of an unsecured creditor.

In short, H.R. 162 is bad public policy.

The mischief in H.R. 162 is this: it would--for the first time--give the highest priority lien to those who contract with the ship's master ...