February 12, 1967. Lincoln’s Birthday. LBJ lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial and says a few words:
“So Lincoln began his troubled journey towards a new concept which would go beyond theories of black power or white power; beyond the ancient blinders of racism to the establishment of a multi-racial community in which a man’s pride in his racial origins would be wholly consistent with his commitment to the common endeavor.
“He died before he had the opportunity to give voice to this vision.
“We can never know what course history would have taken had Booth’s bullet not brought down this towering political saint and stoked the fires of vengeance.
“We do know that it has taken more than a century for us as a nation to assert the ideal that Lincoln had barely formulated.
“It has required the hard lessons of a hundred years to make us realize, as he realized, that emancipating the Negro was an act of liberation for the whites.”
President Johnson, Remarks at a Ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. February 12, 1967. LBJ Presidential Library photos 9896-O, 9896-J by Abbie Rowe of the National Park Service. Public domain.
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