هذه لحظة أتمنّى من أعماق قلبي لو عاش والداي حتى يشاركاني إيّاها. كان أبي سيسعد بما قلتموه عنّي بسخاء، وكانت أمي ستصدّقه.

“This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.”Lyndon B. Johnson — Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 (1966)