Aug 25, 1966
The wisdom of the many is much to be preferred to the decisions of the few.
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
Lady Bird told me--said, 'I am going to have the surprise of your life for your birthday tomorrow.'
Aug 25, 1966
A great society is not going to be built in this country by Lyndon Johnson.
Aug 25, 1966
We are out here to learn about testing new fuels, new materials, new approaches to old problems, new forms of public and private cooperation.
Aug 25, 1966
I spoke of other problems that flow not alone from poverty, but from our prosperity.
Aug 25, 1966
And most of us don't like to have somebody else do our fighting for us.
Aug 25, 1966
Nor, may I say, do we have a different face for Moscow, Peking, or Hanoi.
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.
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
You will see, I think, why I think that domestic policy is a good guide to our foreign policy and what we should do abroad.
Aug 25, 1966
We must let them know, and we must let the world know, that we are willing to bear the burden of a long struggle to defeat the Communist invasion of South Vietnam.
Aug 25, 1966
The Soviet Union has joined with us in requesting that all of the countries participating in the negotiations be prepared to resume discussions on the 12th day of next month.
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
Our advantage, I think, then, is that we early discovered that social justice is very efficient.
Aug 24, 1966
I learned only recently that yours is the only family with five sons currently on active duty in any of the military services, an experience unprecedented in the United States Marine Corps.
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