On the recordAugust 9, 1966
A Great Society cannot rest on the achievements of the past.
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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker Transmitting Report of Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy
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No man could serve where I have served now for more than 4 years and 5 long months--in this great office of all the people--without sensing that we are once again in 'a new time.'
Men like this have seen our country through every crisis that has ever confronted our Nation.
So, not as partisans, not as Democrats, and not as Republicans, but only and always as Americans let us look to the good that has been wrought.
Our work is not done until that answer is found, even if the process requires years of our lives.