Jul 22, 1966
I want to thank each of you for the contribution you are making to helping all of us make this the greatest Nation in all the world.
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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Jul 22, 1966
Never have the people of this country had more justification for pride, nor more reason to be grateful, than they have today because of men like you.
Jul 22, 1966
I particularly want to thank you for furnishing us the most able executive, I think, that we have in the White House--Mrs. Bess Clements Abell, a Kentucky girl, who walks with kings and prime ministers and never loses the common touch to…
Jul 22, 1966
When America grows afraid and loses its commitment to freedom, that is the day that America will begin to die.
Jul 22, 1966
I am very happy to say that today you have standing in the United States Senate a man who carries on in the tradition of Lincoln, a man named Paul Douglas, who fights to see that all men are free and equal and live together as brothers.
Jul 22, 1966
The United States was born in strife and it was nurtured in hardship.
Jul 22, 1966
So we are convinced that the development will make a material contribution to the economic well-being of this area.
Jul 22, 1966
I don't think the day will ever come when the American people will desert those who stand for them on far-off battlefields in the fight for freedom.
Jul 22, 1966
It is to hasten the day when war is no longer the arbiter among nations.
Jul 22, 1966
It is a grenade that is thrown from a rooftop into a crowded marketplace.
Jul 22, 1966
You only have to be with them a few minutes and you know what real courage is.
Jul 22, 1966
It will be matched equally by the funds provided by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Jul 22, 1966
So our honored and respected men of the 101st, we have come here today to salute you.
Jul 22, 1966
Mrs. Johnson and I want to express our deepest and sincerest thanks to you for coming out here this late in the evening, bringing your signs and giving us this warm welcome to the great city of Louisville, the wonderful State of Kentucky.
Jul 22, 1966
The initiative is no longer with the enemies of freedom. The initiative is with us.
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