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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

The Chemical Composition of Representative Grades of 1952 and 1954 Crops of Flue-Cured Tobacco, $1870; the Story of the Patent Office, $2,000; the Highways of History, $700; Improvements in Printing and Reproduction Techniques, a total…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

Honest mistakes can be forgiven, but it is hard to forgive failures to examine and tighten agency procedures to guard against a recurrence of an error.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

In less than 2 months we have made a reduction of 98 in the number of questionnaires, surveys, and other reports.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

We should never relax our efforts to give the American people a dollar's worth of value for a dollar spent.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

I want you personally to take command of developing the information to help us define the problems that we must deal with in our budget next fall.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 1, 1964

Our efforts to increase efficiency and economy in the executive branch, we ought to be as unsatisfied as a little boy's appetite.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 30, 1964

Our responsibility to our country, as President John Kennedy said, 'is not discharged by an announcement of virtuous ends.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 30, 1964

I am very proud today to buy the first of the new $75 denomination United States savings bonds, a bond which bears the portrait of our late, beloved, and brave President John F. Kennedy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 30, 1964

Buying bonds for our Nation's security is a sure way to express such confidence and I take pride and pleasure in presenting my check for the first $75 bond to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Dillon.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 29, 1964

For our efforts to build a great society in this Nation are being opposed by those who suffer from a handicap not of the body or the mind, but of the soul.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 29, 1964

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and now if you will join me, we will go to lunch over in the Mansion.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 29, 1964

I am convinced that it is morally right, that it is socially just, that it is economically sensible, that it is administratively feasible to open the door of employment opportunity to handicapped Americans.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 29, 1964

I wanted to be a teacher, and was until the pay scale pushed me into the line of work that I am now in.

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