This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and thei...
I am asking the Department of State to seek through the Swiss Government immediately the agreement of the Cuban Government in a request to t...
We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American Nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege.
It corrects a cruel and enduring wrong in the conduct of the American Nation.
The Federal Government will work closely with these agencies in their tasks of charity and brotherhood.
This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.
The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied.
Our next concern is with those who are imprisoned for political reasons.
I have directed the Departments of State and Justice and Health, Education, and Welfare to immediately make all the necessary arrangements t...
Our first concern will be with those Cubans who have been separated from their children and their parents and their husbands and their wives...
So it is in that spirit that I declare this afternoon to the people of Cuba that those who seek refuge here in America will find it.
The lesson of our times is sharp and clear in this movement of people from one land to another.
But we must act, and act swiftly.
Today, we begin to be masters of our environment.
Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during wh...
There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.
There is no excuse for a river flowing red with blood from slaughterhouses.
With the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965 this morning, I pledge you that we are going to reopen the Potomac for swimming by 1975.
