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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 21, 1964

The Attorney General is authorized to delegate any of the functions conferred upon him by this order to any officer or employee of the Department of Justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 21, 1964

The new standard, the new goal of Government, and within Government, must therefore be the standard goal of excellence.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 21, 1964

The day has passed when Government jobs are the easy jobs of our society, or when the public service is the refuge of those inadequate for the demands of private competition.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 21, 1964

Since this is an election year, I guess I had better not say that Brom Smith is the most valuable man in the White House.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 19, 1964

I do not intend for us to settle for an uneasy peace for the world, or an inferior society for America, or an inadequate education for our children.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 19, 1964

Education is a national need, and I want to assure you that as long as I am President, the education of your children is going to receive top priority by the men who lead your Nation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 19, 1964

Just the day before he died, our beloved late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote: 'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 19, 1964

Help us--help us to open the doors of America's abundance and freedom's promise to every man, whatever his race, or his region, or his religion.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 18, 1964

Our Urban Mass Transportation Act sponsored by this administration has already passed the Senate of the United States and it will soon come to a vote in the House.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 18, 1964

But as long as one American who is able to work cannot find a job, this administration and the National Democratic Party are not going to rest on our record.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 18, 1964

I have come here today to ask you great citizens of San Francisco to join up in that forward march.

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