02/18/1968
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"Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do proclaim Sunday, November twenty second, 1964, a day of national rededication."
"I do not interpret the selection as a mandate to any reckless, novel, dangerous, or unique course."
"It can be said of him, as Thomas Jefferson said of George Washington: 'Never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in everlasting remembrance.'"
"In death he has entered and enriched it."