Lyndon Johnson actually said...

And I want all of you to know, too, that I have known that awful feeling that comes when the votes are counted in the United States Senate and there is Ev smiling that cherubic smile.

Context

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

11/19/1967

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