The experience of the past few decades demonstrates conclusively how the standard of living of American citizens has continued to rise as we...
I LOOK to this body as a domestic national security council for the war on poverty.
I hope the Vice President-elect will assume a role similar to the one I filled as Chairman of the Peace Corps National Advisory Council.
Your job is to help me in making policy and program decisions in waging this war.
I am also asking Vice President-elect Humphrey to take a leading role in the war on poverty.
I call upon the members of this Council to meet as often as necessary, to recommend whatever actions need to be taken, and to carry out what...
Our objective is total victory--and we are going to attain it.
One of the Presidents that I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago.
I just do not agree.
For, as the problem of civil rights has grown in urgency, it has also grown in complexity.
I want the Government of all of the people to speak with a single voice on this single question.
I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through efforts that you ha...
Well, I am here to say to you tonight that I do not agree.
It shall be my purpose and it is my duty to make it a fact.
Our first objective will always be to assure nondiscriminatory operation rather than to put an end to programs which are vital to the welfar...
Above all, I urge the American people to heed the conclusions of this Commission.
We shall need to be--as Americans have always been--prudent and practical in what we undertake.
We must begin to think about the future--about the year 2000--about the foundations we must put in place for a larger, more complex, more ch...
