Inauguration of President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey, 1965-01-20

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president the vice president the dark suit white shirt gold was this is going to his seat he was preceded just a few minutes earlier life the first lady mrs johnson and stunning red code red sailor at the black velvet and she too has taken a seat and all eyes now returned to that great bronze door through which the president will come to send the steps down to this inaugural platform where he will take the oval office is the thirty six the president of the united states you're right keith of the morning has been a grim on the sun somewhat overcast by those thin wispy clouds covering much of washington just as the marine corps band struck up its first drill at music introducing the arrival of a wife preselected country songs seem to peek through now in fact that there is a very sharp raise casting between the two

colors serve through which the president will walk just the second from the marine band will play rock golden arches that's not an enlargement of the rather a quiet spines of failed the heat was going to come down and read right keith in the first order a formal business of course would be the delivery of the invocation was begun by roman catholic archbishop of san antonio robbery lacey first told the manager will be live on rice incidentally case that was one of the first arrivals in the inaugural law was the right moment they're easier

to just leave that about as they say john ydstie and hispanics and slide out here in a roped off area is a tremendous ground thousands of hospital mccormick of the day ends a period of almost fourteen months out there and what's the venerable des moines the first in line of succession of presidents the line

inauguration leading on this double whammy somber warnings or when george washington lately cornerstone of those migrants are going and seventeen ninety three in the senate chamber were weighing was put in at under that we're going to win and that that has had an eighteen eleven the house way with panic or affirm in nineteen eighty nine congress of the united states operated in a place called largest hotel the site where the supreme court now spends the northeast side work on the dome that was dominating the insects that was still under construction like a completed in

nineteen fifty five and was struck by the enormous green lady we can see a perspective called freedom he is fourteen thousand pound bronze be reporting from the abc anchor booth and apple pies are directly across from the white ribbon the lectern protected by bulletproof glass and vice president elect the president of the united states political capital there is flanked by the house and senate a bill in for much of the political money workers the fact that there isn't one of the disputed issues sam rayburn building it baltimore county model now until dawn mcgregor on the all presidents

who died in office lent state with the exception of franklin d roosevelt well johnson is always one for assistance you recall a climate survey it really brag about the lies and where what it actually go through here to keep we're standing just inside the ron stork an award as option here comes president lyndon johnson on route to that red carpet and the inaugural ceremony johnson in a dark blue suit and they're like great i smiling shaking hands with friends the honor guard coming to a smart salute johnson stepping onto the traditional red carpet flight by an honor guard as the love begins rob recognizes that the chief executive is here on route to the historic swearing in ceremony throughout to bernard i've been on the

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former minority leader of the house of representatives within the eurozone they're here and i had vision of our form of government we're here today than ordering part is that for the united states it had the great honor of mia chairman committee on writing the orders of them began our program forbidden in the united states marine band on the direction of lieutenant colonel barber shop or or not players all we all love our guns right around ms boynton is bleak as brothers

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well the audience our eye as a mortar m and robert b legit or not the obligation almighty and eternal god we are reflecting upon all we're gathered here today tijuana of the cheech chief executive vice president of our nation we thanked me for peace and prosperity we are grateful for what else are abundant harvests and the fruits of the earth by which we live but we remember the man does not been five bread alone and so we are grateful to for the spiritual heritage of our nation the sense of justice long and try a spirit of charity for the lonely and the oppressed and by divine providence so heavenly father leadership of the world i've been entrusted to us

the fate of humanity is in our hand the nation look to us for survival of western civilization stands on a hall with america in these days of tragedy and crisis all the revolt there is a challenge and even brought respect for human personality honor integrity a very fair all these aren't they and our country champion of truth and justice must leave the nations of the world the dawn of a bright herbal we pray that almighty god made man the leader of our country wisdom and understanding strength and harriet and these days it's that and strike in the hour of a court decision may god make clear to our president the

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i'm dave davies the cause of the people i'm going to the shack the nomination for all life and all we thank you for this inaugural a living his star witness who are they really i didn't have a choice and actions are very brave people here at the capital of our nation of every fighter which involves our hearts either way can already pre eminent

men a bar east london paris we pray provide blessings upon our beloved president the vice president those associated with all the leadership it hit with torrential humphrey the huge places his hand on the bible to take his oath of office that i have no and let us view that the hands of all of us joined those it was symbolic of all that got through preaching and buy only worth our eternal challenge we ask for no miracle beyond the miracle which is always with us if we will only using the

power of love to try the curse of war and poverty into the benediction of concord and twenty may this inauguration a lot mark the renewal of a people on the grave of a path of greatness a turning point in american history when we move close off to the realization of president johnson's dream of a better life for every citizen and although you might with all who are dedicated so the continuance of humanity is a memorial hall wrote a journey toward freedom and prosperity

farmers built huerta rabbi shrek those hands folded his eyes tightly closed his face so out of time with a lever hospital corpsman there who swear an outbreak about a representative of the old along for the ride as bell as the years where a lot of the constitution of the united states against all enemies our habit that i knew were racial country do solemnly swear

that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies on and a mistake that's your faith in the region that the day that i will be fair to perry and allegiance to the same that you take this obligation freely i take this obligation freely without any innovation up a party they would without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and actually the opposite which you are about to end and that i will well and they really discharge the duties of the office which i am about to enter so how you got soul help me ah ah i'm confident

that the people of georgia mr david where a lot of our partners curses are of supreme importance we lift up this day a man to be set apart a special way in our love and prayers to this historic and exulting ceremony we lived came off as we do the vice president under gracious for by strong healthy i commend the not all men and women in all areas and branches of our nation's life who share that terrible splendor of leadership in the far west guarding key by servant lyndon baines

johnson and he may prosper in the sacred tasks for which he has been called by the decisive will of the people and by the vine crops we thank you for this magnificently significant service to his nation and the world already written on his first throw for his gallantry instability seen in time the greatest peril and then dark tragedy as well as in the daily routine of his never ending to this week forest careful preparation for such a time as this bipartisan way and patient attention to details we find it for all of his skills in the political science as an arts and for his insights and doorways of government rewards are credited with the giver of all good gifts the man for the president and the vice president continued on health and all those two judgments and loyalties they must be able to rely on read our president not the rule worry as he must remind us we are one people

that we are the one of many where the nation's an uninspiring family of nations for the start of all the world's our dreams our efforts and our sacrifices that will redeem they give them universal meaning and purpose a poll him that he may encourage us to be able to increasingly the reason they gathered to seek an essential consensus to live on our strange and wonderful diversity was stable you know uphold our president of god as he leads us on the record that great and those are what society of persons who seek real were a society in which none shall live in fear because justice mercy and brotherhood will flourish in the er thus we pray in the name of news the wonderful counselor the mighty the everlasting father the prince of peace with

robert george davis of the national survey for thirty two years of congressional service well if you go to the united nations blue origin it's been the peak ms banks boys the company conoco phillips

and will to the best of your ability preserve but that ended that the constitution of the united states so help you know an hour it's been like a lot of time

on this occasion the old i have taken before you and before got is not my apple how are we are one nation and one people are great americans are as a people not fond ones all cities that is the majesty and the meaning of this moment for every generation there is a destiny or song has three sides

for this generation the choice a rocket it reminds us that the world will not be the sidebar children or even part ourselves in a short span of years the next man to expand their will look out on a shame that is different from are all the goal of ours is a time of change rather than jay baron the secrets of nature multiplying the nations placing an uncertain and

new weapons far mastery and destruction shaky all relatives and uprooting all lawyers are designating and the manager of a donkey jerry ferrara of articles been all their clothes bakery and tower and the stranger rape were bright and find a place for on my hand the years all nine they made a covenant with this fire and saved injustice written and every day

now i'm indian one day in the hall all that and it binds us know if we keep its terms we show for each verse justice was a promise that all who made the journey would share the fruits of the line in a land of great wealth managers not live oak trees are in a land that rich and harvey's shoulder and just must not go

on and a land of healing narrow its neighbors must not supper and back on and in aid great land the morning and scholar young people must be able to read and write for more than thirty years but i have served this nation i have only this injustice to our people that's a waste of our resources a lot of our real enemy our parties are more with the resources i have a i have begun label against

i have learned that i know that will not surrender you what change has given us you worked before this generation of americans is vanished this and then they will not only recreate that will be copper topped critics' joshua's require her to remember and they are the narrative i'll say as a lawyer is not our hero's police are strange and that

and that moment he betrays mr rowley as for barris created this nation church liturgy was the second article of our problem it was so it was our bill of rights it was small amount owed be a place where each land could be proud to be himself writing columns re joyce lee and his war importer i'm alive this has become more difficult in a world were

changing roles seemed to our agree on the controller and even the judge of man we must work to provide the knowledge and the surrounding which can enlarge the possibilities on every surface of the american government calderon us to help show the way for the liberation of man that is today a cargo thus yet have a nation there is much outside our control as a people no stranger is outside our goal jamie have brought you ever

again stand aside prideful in isolation for every nine years and troubled that we once called are now constantly live among american lives in the us and an american treasure be used both countries that we rarely know and that is that price that change as demanded all conviction and all are enduring problem bank of our own as it looks from the rocket is heading toward mark is like a child's low hanging spikes but comes up to its side like

we're all of the passengers on a dock over and each of us her really only a moment among our combined how incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should meet and destroy one another there are often voted them out for all who abandoned mastery over others to pursue mat perry overnight there is the world and not so far often seek their happiness and their own way

and are nations force is abundantly clear we were wrong we say no dominion over our alumni man was the malian overturn a man met with more frequent man want to be part of the common enterprise a cause greater than himself and each you must find a way to advance the purpose of the nation those find new purpose

arsenal without this we will simply become a nation of strange the third article is you one of those who were small and few against the wilderness the success of liberty the man describes a billion two centuries of chant have made this rule being no longer the calculation work her former employer he'll be in the country the vibes are bound by working shoulder to shoulder together we can

increase the bounty of all we have discovered that every child who earn an every man who finds work and every sick body that's made whole all right well here and a hamas who say your real or will angry dental or think they stand in the way now enjoy reason to play an action to experiment to

transform our european countries into a unity a pork chop on the hour and the day and the time of year to achieve progress without surprise who achieve change without taking not without their permission and but without the deep and abiding to beijing which are the union for generation or a cow critics under this covenant justice liberty and and we have become a nation

prosperous moderate and might have kept our freedom but we have no promise from god that our greatness will endure we have been allowed to see greatness with the sweat of our hand and the strength of our spirit i do not believe that the great society is the order she ageless and spiral book it in advance it is the excitement of the common always the common prying probing all in wrath and pride and they were always try and

always e i n d generation with colorado and here we have had our heritage a game that we play are now than we will have forgotten and the bonbons what we learn and hardship that democracy it rests on it that prey don't ant more than a year and the judgment of god its harshest on those who are

most favored if we succeeded it may not be because of what we have will be because of what we are not because of what we all would rather it calls of what we really i ask are we are a nation are believers underneath a primer on building the rush of our days pursuits we are believers every man might someday be pre

crisp we believe in ourselves that is the most that are animators have always made in my lifetime and oppression on and more they have awaited ardently each time and the sacred places of the american our game for the way that they cannot say that they could not even imagine rovers that will actually on this is what america is all about it is beyond cross

deserts and land rich it is the star that is not reached the hearts that sleeping well is our world on we say farewell is a url common we welcome and we will benefit of the old man ah and the rest of the germans to my family and those close friends of all of the man than a long winding road and

do all that people of this young man and the world i will repeat what i said on that sorrowful day in november last year i will lead and i will do the best i can actually our crew were too numerous live within your own hearts to the obama says than the older in they lead you first of all for myself it is only in the words of an ancient we

give me now was known and knowledge that i may go out and command before this people far you can judge that i people that is so great yeah nineteen eighty eight president lyndon johnson i moderated those first old times or under all over iraq from now where it was spending more than they're jordan what microphone the first lady was standing post well purposes the abc radio anchor both of the underdog

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today inauguration coverage has come to you from radio new york world was more coverage at their station identification you argue drew w r u l owned by the national educational broadcasting corporation with transmitters in synch with massachusetts the united states of america at this time there were you are you always the air for fifteen minutes on eleven point nine four all by disciples in the twenty five meter band and fifteen point one three five by disciples in the nineties why authority of the federal communications commission revealed york worldwide today is presenting special

programs covering the inauguration of president johnson and vice president on parade in washington now we return you to washington dc we can do anything well the choir think that so white we await the invocation which will

include the formality the inauguration though a benediction of the orthodox church and protection and the mission doll who invites ronnie been obeying the men in the nation a plan b in the hands of the world in hot and we did the the car then you're in prairie and the nation from the time all the teal green and founding father of army and the wild car alarm it was b mayhem and the

immigration than an adoptable dog alton and forty two harry are talking the three week have raised and the like i thought then and i thought of all the idea of the matter and then the men who are dying live in kind of weak that we're really clear that we have where you you know where are all our heroine might have on men a home and liberal we believe that the guy we do that we can't he knew in an unpopular the lead on our innovation then he'd leave believe that underlie the inaugural poet ronny and the nation all bar where

the big red then in the prayer all the honorable and educated fair amount of our people linda the inaugural ceremony on are in a mall on them at all the vegetation we there are ready to be thom baugh our beloved friend in our by grandin and therefore here in the government of our nation where their dog and then the man and beauty of our prominent oil out of the land of the free and the pall mall the buying he then protect them from all eu and a neighbor or men run through where there are called the brief that made our nation the call holden the

fire and the audi all the oprah weed out the the mammoth by the end of the end of volleyball the all poly that even be an end of the bennett the obama nation and beyond i believe in are fighting for freedom got the baby and the common them it's been it's

bleak it's been nice the piece as bell the president of the united states a lot of the very near the capital of the united states as the president of the united states lyndon baines johnson larry bird vice president hubert humphrey and

in the united states members of the president's cabinet the other members of the supreme court than a very very proud and around the world we were in nineteen sixty four in mormon tabernacle choir came before the actual ceremony began the choir was for the audience you know if my country if we said name an emmy o'dwyer that in just moment we hope to be able to draw some of the members of the mormon tabernacle choir here and members of the choir and the director of the choir might be

profitable airlines that they're going to have all of the major wire services reports that independent newspapers and radio and television and hear these individual been together for the occasion for years for the inauguration of john f kennedy the president of the united states at that time and who would have thought the occasion at the white rabbit in the new year this is a movement right now preparing for the next day are those who are observing also the inaugural parade rate will begin at one thirty regular

down pennsylvania avenue to the white house and the president will review an important travel and given the same at the head of the parade and his servants of the parade and reviewing the honor guard will be one of the high points of the weather here in washington dc today has been rather clear and rather color were delighted to see one of the coldest of the air on top of the wire i wonder if you could give us your impression of a lawyer won firing at the law within that signifies a great example in that made the inaugural of the area we were very happy to have a part in the ceremony rather it humbling opportunity like ramadi representative of the

quieter today talking before a microphone were hoping that frequently come to the director of the choir will be here in just a moment and i see him coming over and we'll talk to one or two of the choir members are to get their reaction to that that i'm not sure yet how you're like an honorary title many times you're at the piano the piano and the fire ok and we're happy to be part of the year on the beautiful to my country during the levies are aware of a lot of both our life and provide hard to one question about the piano in the brain not in that olive of white wine

today we're talking with members of the mormon tabernacle choir members of those who leave the choir and we hope now that we will have one or two of the choir members attempting to defile our family or the aisle the narrow here and there is not much room with the character of high end though the temperatures are low there were delighted to be coming to our microphone out the richard evans who's voiced unspoken word that we're going to continue to build the mormon church and why are so many wonder why we never have really been more proud of the choir were grateful for all the difficulties that they're getting your own thing you know we're looking to the world our gratitude for our great country is volatile so if we move

a lot of beer like you or your fine thank you very much for being our guest we have now to make one of the young lady with the choir when he did that i thought you'd fill up the time they rely largely on all calling and demanding the fall of the two other occasions when you're in the media lab has been banned i i feel like we were the year that like a really different way and now i think you know in the very early that

we're talking with the mormon tabernacle choir here in the air about to leave the area of the united states capitol following their performances at the inauguration of president johnson said the thirty second president of the united states and their performance aretha like general thing that has high country were included the ceremony the battle hymn of the republic and give us your tired your poor dave and inspiring added jobs at the personal request of the job than himself so this request for their performance from the president and rather late but they are here and here's another member what is your name and you know my mouth where you run out like getting it what your reaction to performing before the very very outside of all of that the cold weather ally and yet of the world one of the fortunate ones that make the earthquake the weather where you go you're doing a lot

to you and i think of what we hoped to do whatever yeah we like and gordon back and jordan did you have acquired a lawyer lived in london for years now top of bland of the battle hymn of the republic of a helicopter found only a label on the most chilling things that are wrong with your job your arm from walmart in that moment that they can then and all were very much like we have a few more minutes to talk with additional members of the choir that we do that we indicated thirty grand the united states marine corps rest of the press corps are seated this was a very close to where the president

that took the oath of office and where the assembled dignitaries of course on whether vice president became the vice president and where has so many inspiring words that emanated from the day and indeed it was a thrilling occasion for all assembled even though the cold temperatures rather biting wind and then occasionally cloudy skies made that aspect of a difficult thing here is another member of the choir what is your name all five have told the road and you were like you're here with than that in nineteen fifty five with more fighting performing you have real reforms perhaps ally with it and that was very definitely am there now you're going back online now

i don't know i've been a collector than that thank you renee finally why are you holding you're really really well i wonder that you worked a member of the choir of course never have to look like a portable recording thought of the immediate surrounding counties there's barely grow and you're one of the male members were delighted to talk with one of the male member of the choir yes i am really really really that's the number of all the word they could recall one of the other famous really

well the time we get the it's been a riot in the symphony hall in philadelphia yeah very long you were looking for the others they will be unable to make our broadcast at that time having a little later by recording what internet proper thing you go through a variety of things the very heart of our only five to get a lot of the weather related fire department of the money of the

country and the world ray may have bought by the senate members of the choir perform without a travel around the world without being compensated for that was the riddle game and the outlook in warmer than you have for a while avoid us busy i know nuclear bomb two hours before their actual performance of the final number of the cold temperatures rain on

snow or anything else but it would be having that march from the state of utah well i'm delighted to be here the court tomorrow with a cajun thrilling rededication really of the nation so probably mormon tabernacle choir the part in the program today i think they have a marvelous job than thrilled everyone here rather well known now they had travel all night after writing about all they have today in order to get here will render their program i think in fact that large would you say that the moment prior to the most famous export of her well and i get i can agree with that right off of them has known the world over for choir continued the head

thing that we have coming out at you i know that many of our listeners around the world by a motion picture of the health of our performance around the show thought like good job a wonderful part of the choir here in contrast to what you heard on the thing and the cabernet well as part of that in fact different because it was open air and they're not in poland and acquired the swell of much of that with the old marble beautiful than that that appearance rather gotten it required what you've undoubtedly another inauguration being a public life many years and you really felt in general well there was so much better than it was four years ago and also a knife in the rain a lot to franklin delano roosevelt get inaugurated this day i would say in that respect the law but with the finest

inauguration that i think everything went off in the area in good order today a president gave a very inspiring and whipping inaugural address people are happy gay mood so i would say to find better things aren't firing at all of course i agree i think you're one of them are lifting that i've heard and it will go down as one of our very famous inaugural address that was like very much going to get on in the water for eighteen thank you right

behind you you know we think people via weill well early on the situation will hold one of the things we probably have a third generation why did i think the administration the director of the choir perhaps are not lenient frequently or before the public and the conductor of an orchestra yet serving you and that you work at least the part that all of the many other drug war over again warren who like fall before the performance of the members of the choir were indicating that was difficult to hear some of the company rather than their own and they were hitting each other

then they'll pull them out they probably all of them they will get worse on the middle of the lions in a situation very beautiful place where you know there's a great great occasion about the election victory of that come about i know that one of the very few articulate confident that one of the numbers that we have a mandate to your target for corporate america have been oppressed

and the poor people and people come here in poland then the death of my country that a member of the inaugural because of that take the whole the way that universal like so much money for a few of the wonderful performance might know me and mr yale or avatar from mark o'mara allow full hour right here i mean

they are desolate special program we talked with members of the mormon tabernacle choir here at the inauguration of president johnson and their performance as the climax of a magnificent day in which there were literally oliphant of words of inspiration spoken and the difficulty of that woman why are the united states marine corps band adding further to the dignity of the tunnel and now we see that the renewed the beginning to show signs of the departure of a vast crowd product moving onto new flight the parade route along the pennsylvania avenue going down to the white house the choir not a band the marine corps band to members of congress the cabinet the rotunda of the whitehall they are now having their lunch or an implied before the original congressional group which is having a luncheon or them the members of the press and television who are here are now beginning to swing into action and other locations

expand their equipment aircraft move elsewhere perhaps to go and try to get water to five the press corps is filing their story about the media of this country and the world of the cloud of the guy who's going to be disappearing from the shining brightly here in washington dc as we stand and watch the final moments in this location of our continuing coverage of the inauguration of president every january twentieth every four years the new president is inaugurated or anyone or duration although president withheld ultimately for the second time last year a bike and mr theriot thanks to our technical stuff or the titles of ruffle over spain we hope to all felt like those who cooperated so magnificently from the inaugural committee in the house radio television gallery and a thumping of the various credentials here that in itself was a a very difficult path with so many thousands of requests

that really thought you had it available for those who wish to be an artist that we also if i go from the infallible the telegraph company maybe inflation the network lion circuit affable very complex job and the one behind the things mile miles of intertwining cables that provide the video and the audio tour for the coverage of an event that wealth that was like those numbers reveal your worldwide like americans that were originated at penn station network broadcast of the united states made in puerto rico broadcasting the actual ceremony of the inauguration around the world this was especially difficult under the circumstances for translations spanish it would be simultaneous and of course that was accomplished by our experience serving without their help in making the arrangements for a day of activity and to

all who participated in this broadcast another history making event has been brought to you by radio new york worldwide the inauguration of the president of the united states john pollock thirty five and the ceremony that had been through that and that's a part of our continuing coverage of the great events of archive the world watches and waits and thinks of today and tomorrow it is awful to bring you all of the excitement of the moment at the vigil crowd speaking on the radio in europe worldwide network we return you now to our studios in the heart of new york city this is radio new york world why are you arguing to w r u l at this time broadcasting to europe and latin america the way you are a well programs will continue to be heard including the delayed by two hours are regularly scheduled program the worldwide hit parade singles preview with daily dow the time is one pm eastern standard time eighteen hundred gm say

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