Aug 25, 1966
I spoke of other problems that flow not alone from poverty, but from our prosperity.
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
This is an area of the country that I think is definitely moving forward and Denver is a city that is on the move.
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
Our safest guide to what we do abroad is always take a good look at what we are doing at home.
Aug 25, 1966
Nor, may I say, do we have a different face for Moscow, Peking, or Hanoi.
Aug 25, 1966
But we do have better answers than they have any other place in the world.
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
It will require more than understanding and more than generosity to build that world of health and hope.
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
Our dealings with other countries are deeply important to ourselves; they have a deep and important bearing on the lives of the peoples of other lands.
Aug 25, 1966
And most of us don't like to have somebody else do our fighting for us.
Aug 25, 1966
This energy is to propel the machines of progress; to light our cities and our towns; to fire our factories; to provide new sources of fresh water; and to really help us solve the mysteries of outer space as it brightens our life on this…
Aug 25, 1966
The spontaneous cooperation of our people is the secret weapon that made America great.
Aug 25, 1966
We defend, and I intend to defend, the right of everyone to disagree, if he wants to, with everything that we urge or everything that we do.
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