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On the recordJuly 20, 1966
I asked Secretary Gordon, when he presented you with that Western saddle last May, to say then that I hoped you would ride tall in it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Burnham of Guyana

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