Aug 25, 1966
This is an area of the country that I think is definitely moving forward and Denver is a city that is on the move.
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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Aug 25, 1966
Our safest guide to what we do abroad is always take a good look at what we are doing at home.
Aug 25, 1966
I don't know of another nation in the world that wouldn't trade places with us today.
Aug 25, 1966
It will require more than understanding and more than generosity to build that world of health and hope.
Aug 25, 1966
So I would remind you that when I went to Washington 35 years ago I saw General MacArthur on a white horse chasing the veterans down Pennsylvania Avenue into the Anacostia Flats.
Aug 25, 1966
Until then, I ask on behalf of them, for all of them, all of our men in Vietnam, I ask you to give them all you can give them.
Aug 25, 1966
When Lady Bird leaves town and I have no place to go, and I feel a little lonely–and one of my daughters gets married and the other one is in Hollywood--I call up Mike or Mary Ellen and say, 'Is it all right if I come on out for supper?'
Aug 25, 1966
Nice words and solemn warnings of rhetoric won't stop an aggressor or a guerrilla or a Communist.
Aug 25, 1966
Our foreign policy, in America, like our domestic policy, is all those things--all those things from education, to jobs, to health, to justice, to equality for all people.
Aug 25, 1966
What really made the difference in World War II was the tremendous willpower of the American people.
Aug 25, 1966
Let us support our men in Vietnam and send them the message that we will see it through.
Aug 25, 1966
So, my friends of Oklahoma, your President, your country--all 50 States, more than 300,000 of our finest young men--have taken our stand and we have done so because we believe we had to, because we believe we must.
Aug 25, 1966
Lady Bird and I are very grateful to all of you good people of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, particularly of Denver, for coming out here to greet us today.
Aug 25, 1966
The overriding rule which I want to affirm today is this: that our foreign policy must always be an extension of this Nation's domestic policy.
Aug 25, 1966
But we do have better answers than they have any other place in the world.
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