Sep 4, 1966
They seek the chance to be committed and the chance to be uncommon, and a society worthy of their courage will give them a chance to be both.
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Texas and began his political career as a U.S. Representative in 1937, later becoming a U.S. Senator in 1949. Johnson ascended to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his administration is noted for significant domestic policies, including the Great Society programs aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice. His legislative achievements included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Sep 4, 1966
I want to thank all of you good people for voting for Congressman Love.
Sep 4, 1966
I will sign at the White House a bill to make all of our highways safer for all of you.
Sep 4, 1966
This is my faith: that we, the American people, have the courage, have the fortitude, have the patience and the persistence to see Vietnam through to the end; that we shall look forward and not backward.
Sep 4, 1966
It might be worthwhile for us to just take an inventory of all the blessings that all America has.
Sep 4, 1966
There, we have 300,000 young Americans in South Vietnam; many thousands more in the Navy off the coast.
Sep 4, 1966
Tonight 20 million of our Negro fellow citizens have the power of the United States Government behind their right to vote for the first time in the history of this land.
Sep 4, 1966
In fact, you have given us the greatest Congress in the history of this country.
Sep 4, 1966
Two years ago your President said that the rights of all of our citizens must be protected.
Sep 4, 1966
And they know that their National Government is going to be a government of the people, a government by the people, and most of all, a government for the people.
Sep 4, 1966
I spoke of my dream of enlarging the meaning of life for every American.
Sep 4, 1966
In civil rights legislation and in the truth-in-packaging bill, he has been my strong right arm.
Sep 4, 1966
We want the killing to stop and the people of Vietnam to make their own future in peace.
Sep 4, 1966
We will not stop the economy in its tracks; we will not put men and machines out of work again.
Sep 4, 1966
This enemy has discovered what so many others have discovered in the wars America has fought, that the air of liberty breeds the best soldier.
Sep 4, 1966
I believe just as firmly as I believe anything in the world that historians will say of us in the years to come: The Americans by their courage and faith, by their love of liberty and freedom, preserved liberty and freedom and opened the…
Sep 4, 1966
So when they ask about my political philosophy I say: I am a free man, first. I am an American, second. I am a public servant, third. And I am a Democrat, fourth--in that order.
Sep 4, 1966
We must not ever succumb to the temptation of buying price stability at the expense of stopping growth.
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