Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I urge the people of the United States to give public and private expression on that day to the abiding love and gratitude which they bear for their mothers by display of the flag at their homes or other suitable places and through prayer and thoughtful acts of affection and devotion.

Context

Proclamation 3654—Mother's Day, 1965

04/26/1965

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