May 19, 1966
The income of our workers is up 33 percent in the last 5 years alone.
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 19, 1966
It should not be too great a hardship to stretch out the filling of vacancies and, in some cases, even to forgo replacing a portion of those who leave their positions in your agency.
May 19, 1966
The gains since 1954 must be steppingstones to greater fulfillment, not future reminders of what might have been.
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 18, 1966
The owner of a corner grocery store has just as much right to the help of his Government as the president of a big supermarket.
May 18, 1966
Let's make small business one of the biggest growth industries in the country.
May 18, 1966
A man's desire to become his own boss has always been a part of our national dream.
May 18, 1966
The father of the free enterprise system, Mr. Adam Smith, described the value of the small businessman in these words: 'A small proprietor . . . who knows every part of his little territory, who views it with all the affection which…
May 18, 1966
I want you, not later than the 26th of this month, to start accepting new small business loan applications in all your regional offices throughout the country.
May 18, 1966
In operating your agency, I want you to keep in mind that there is really no such thing as a small businessman.
May 16, 1966
When the Federal Government provides special services for special groups, it is both good economics and good government to charge fees for these services
May 16, 1966
We shall use it well in giving pleasure and enlightenment to men and women of every age, to men and women from every walk of life.
May 16, 1966
I again call on each of you to give user charge legislative proposals your continuing active support
May 16, 1966
Washington is a city of powerful institutions, the seat of government for the strongest nation on earth, the place where democratic ideals are translated into reality, where we are not just concerned with appearance, but with achievement.
May 16, 1966
User charges make possible an efficient allocation of resources among alternative programs
May 16, 1966
I again call on each of you to give user charge legislative proposals your continuing active support.
May 16, 1966
I urge the Congress to respond to this magnificent offer by adopting the measure I am forwarding today.
May 16, 1966
I have seen a lot of changes in the 35 years that I have been in Washington.
May 16, 1966
So in the National Gallery collection, in the Freer and the Corcoran Galleries, in the museums of the Smithsonian, in the Kennedy Center that is to come, in the Pennsylvania Avenue plan--and now, in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture…
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