Lyndon Johnson actually said...

But before she is any of those things, she is distinguished among us as a wife, as a mother, as a woman concerned about the world that we leave to our children.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Dr. Mary I. Bunting as a Member of the Atomic Energy Commission.

06/28/1964

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