May 25, 1966
It takes guts to spend money on freight cars, even if you've got the money.
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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May 23, 1966
I have a strong and continuing interest in the development of business-like financial systems throughout the Federal Government.
May 23, 1966
These goals cannot be fully achieved without sound financial management practices.
May 22, 1966
The small, privately owned concern has played a fundamental role in the development of the American way of life.
May 22, 1966
I do hereby designate the week beginning May 22, 1966, as Small Business Week
May 22, 1966
The small businesses of America are the foundation of our cherished system of free, competitive enterprise.
May 20, 1966
We recognize it. We are aware of it. We give a good deal of attention to it.
May 20, 1966
It will be given to all of you, and it will be in the transcript, too.
May 20, 1966
This is the time for bridges to be built, not for antagonisms to be aroused.
May 20, 1966
I do think it is very important that the President of this country have the right, and I think he does have the duty and the obligation when the Nation is involved in the serious difficulties that we have in the world, to make it clear to…
May 20, 1966
We are not in Vietnam to dictate what form of government they should have.
May 20, 1966
I don't want to be charged with barring you from asking anything you want to.
May 19, 1966
Our goal ought to be not just any job for everybody, but a job that uses all that every man and woman has to offer.
May 19, 1966
Some travel, which seemed important at the time your 1967 budget request was formulated, should be reconsidered in light of the substantial increase in demands on the economy since that time.
May 19, 1966
At any given moment over the past two centuries, observers of American life were convinced that the United States was about to come apart at the seams.
May 19, 1966
The income of our workers is up 33 percent in the last 5 years alone.
May 19, 1966
The answer to that question just must be yes; and I believe it will be yes.
May 19, 1966
No group in America has done more for the cause of social justice than the UAW and no leader has shown more competence or courage in that cause than has Walter Reuther.
May 19, 1966
They said the Catholic and the Jew would perpetually stand outside the door.
May 19, 1966
What has happened is the chronicle of a people beginning to realize that what is written in the books of their laws should also be written in the daily chapters of their lives.
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