Lady Barbara Mature
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These young women we have spent a good while with. You guys can sit down now. (Laughter.) You look good. But they have been our shadows for a good year or so. We've watched them grow and mature, and we are just so proud of them. Many of them are headed off to college, but we will be staying in touch. But it's important for me to make sure they're here at this event, to really understand the power of service and sacrifice and what it means to be a real woman in the world, leading and taking risks. So I want you all to keep your ears open and to take some good notes, because this is really a special event and we're glad you all are here.
Seriously, as we face our future in the White House, Barbara and I take with us memories of people and places from a State that has been home for most of our lives -- all of my adult life, if you will. We remember those 12 years in west Texas. It's a dry heat. You don't feel it -- [laughter] -- my eye! We were there for 12 years. But the people -- I feel their strength and fierce independence to this very day. And I remember driving the kids across Texas. We moved down from west Texas down to the gulf coast, slowing down to take in the fields of the blue bonnets and Indian paintbrush. I don't think you can drive through that country without thinking of yourself as a naturalist or an environmentalist, or at least counting your blessings. And I remember the people of Houston, many of them mature and skeptical, but who nonetheless listened to a very green young man and sent him to Congress in 1966. And I remember Lyndon Johnson at his ranch back in 1969, when I went over there -- an elder Democrat, retired from the Presidency, giving neighborly advice to a young Republican, while his very special Lady Bird held out her hand in hospitality. 59ce067264