Remarks at the White House Luncheon on Lincoln's Birthday
02/11/1965
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I would like to renew that request--out of respect for him--and out of my own concern with this problem.
If I had the Congressional Medal of Honor, I don't think I would want any other medals either.
I will shortly send to the Congress a special message conveying my recommendations for the attack on poverty.
I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present circumstances, from a...