Sep 4, 1966
In civil rights legislation and in the truth-in-packaging bill, he has been my strong right arm.
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
We will not stop the economy in its tracks; we will not put men and machines out of work again.
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.
Sep 4, 1966
Two years ago I asked for the best education that a rich nation could possibly give our young boys and girls.
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
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
In fact, you have given us the greatest Congress in the history of this country.
Sep 4, 1966
Two years ago I said that every American family is entitled to a decent home.
Sep 4, 1966
The United States of America says tonight, through their President: we are ready, willing, and anxious to withdraw our troops.
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
Europe knows peace today, Europe is peaceful tonight because free men stood firm in Greece and in Berlin.
Sep 4, 1966
I spoke of my dream of enlarging the meaning of life for every American.
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
Your happy smiles make us feel at home again in the great industrial metropolis that is admired and envied the world over.
Sep 4, 1966
There, we have 300,000 young Americans in South Vietnam; many thousands more in the Navy off the coast.
Sep 2, 1966
In a sense, the whole story of man is revealed in his search for dependable water supplies.
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