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

It rests not on our cities or our prairies, or our wealth; it rests on the unconquerable spirit of our people.

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

This office is a difficult office, and any who occupy it must be a humble man before the task that he faces.

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

I also urge Federal, State, and local officials, and the people of the United States, generally, to assist in making our overseas visitors welcome and in furthering their enjoyment of their visit to our country.

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

The office of the Presidency is, as one President described it, "pre-eminently the people's office.

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

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the value of the New York World's Fair as an effective instrument for the promotion of international understanding, good will, tourism and…

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

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, on this thirtieth day of April in the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-four, do hereby proclaim the ensuing twelve months a period of commemoration of the beginnings of the…

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

They see America as an era unto itself, not as the beginning of a new era for all mankind.

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

I, for one, feel that there is a genuine need to restudy, reevaluate, reassess many aspects of this office and its functioning as an office in these times.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 28, 1964

It is your job as prophets in our time to direct the immense power of religion in shaping the conduct and the thoughts of men toward their brothers in a manner consistent with compassion and love.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 28, 1964

A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 28, 1964

Today, again the problem of racial wrongs and racial hatreds is the central moral problem of this Republic.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 28, 1964

This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because justice and morality demand it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 27, 1964

We must quit thinking of it just as a force for destruction, or as an instrument for war.

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