Aug 23, 1966
The health of these children and young people will be a measure of the strength of our country in meeting its future challenges.
Lyndon Johnson
The Public Record
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 23, 1966
A good start in life is essential to a child's physical and mental development and to the progress of our society.
Aug 23, 1966
The best start a baby can have is to be born healthy of healthy parents.
Aug 20, 1966
Still today, we must contend with the cruel reality that some men still believe in using force and seek by aggression to impose their will on others.
Aug 20, 1966
We do not choose to use force, but aggression narrows the alternatives--either we do nothing and let aggression succeed, or we take our stand to resist it.
Aug 19, 1966
As I look out this afternoon across Lake Champlain from this inspiring Battery Park height, from the same Battery Park originally sponsored by my good friend George Aiken, I have no trouble imagining what Rudyard Kipling felt when he…
Aug 19, 1966
This is why, when I assumed office, I said I wanted most of all to be a peace President and to be a conservation President.
Aug 19, 1966
I want to pledge to you this afternoon that as long as I have a responsibility for leadership in this country, we are going to retain that splendor in America.
Aug 19, 1966
I saw smog hanging over our cities, and our rivers where they have been abandoned by man and abandoned by fish alike.
Aug 19, 1966
If we can go to Canada together and go to Mexico together, I would just like to go up to Vermont with you.
Aug 19, 1966
I think they know that communism must be halted in Vietnam as it was halted in Western Europe, and in Greece and Turkey, and Korea, and the Caribbean, if it is determined to swallow up free peoples and spread its influence in that area…
Aug 19, 1966
I said here in Manchester 2 years ago that we must stand firm when the vital interests of freedom are under attack.
Aug 19, 1966
We are there for another reason, too, and that is because the United States must stand behind its word, even when conditions have added to the cost of honoring a pledge that was given a decade ago.
Aug 19, 1966
Our hope is that the North Vietnamese will soon realize that they cannot succeed in taking over South Vietnam and they will turn to the task of helping their own people and building their own nation, in which event we will turn our…
Aug 19, 1966
I believe that we must not stand by and watch our rural communities wither and die for lack of water.
Aug 19, 1966
If there is a single word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word 'voluntary.'
Aug 19, 1966
It must be clear, especially to those in the South who worked with the Communists to seize control by force, that their choice no longer includes a military takeover.
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