Lyndon Johnson: “We have come to this historic East Room of the White House today to establish and to bring into being a Department of…”

I urge the Senate to pass Title I.

I plan to leave here after the press conference this morning to go to Kansas City to meet with President Truman later in the day.

Thirty-four years ago, I came here as the sun was setting late one evening and I was married to a lovely lady in this city in St. Mark's Church, in downtown San Antonio.

Americans do not bow. They salute, but they do not bow.