Mar 27, 1966
Mr. Gladstone talks to me as if I were a public meeting--but Mr. Disraeli speaks to me as if I were a woman.
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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Mar 22, 1966
We see it not as an alliance to make war, but as an alliance to keep peace.
Mar 22, 1966
A place of respect and responsibility will await any ally who decides to return to the common task.
Mar 22, 1966
Some say that new circumstances in the world today call for the dismantling of this great organization.
Mar 22, 1966
It is a willingness to leave forever those national rivalries which so often led to the useless squandering of lives and treasure in war.
Mar 22, 1966
Farris Bryant has come to Washington -- at great personal sacrifice -- to help us try to achieve those goals.
Mar 22, 1966
It has been proved true that \one sword keeps another in the sheath.\
Mar 22, 1966
Each believes, of course, in the dignity and rights of every American citizen.
Mar 22, 1966
They didn't come to Washington to be rulers. They came here to be servants and hopefully to be doers.
Mar 22, 1966
Since I came back from New York today I have thrown four or five things out of my basket and said, 'Send that over to Farris Bryant.'
Mar 22, 1966
Some diplomat no doubt will launch a heedless word and lurking war leap out.
Mar 22, 1966
Governor Bryant comes to Washington not to dictate, but to cooperate; not to force, but to assist.
Mar 22, 1966
We will urge that those principles of joint and common preparation be extended wherever they can be usefully applied in the Atlantic Alliance.
Mar 22, 1966
War has been deterred not only because of our integrated military power, but because of the political unity of purpose to which that power has been directed and bent.
Mar 21, 1966
I am naming Robert Komer, of Chicago, Illinois, as my Special Assistant, and he will primarily have the assignment of duties involving the peaceful reconstruction in Vietnam.
Mar 21, 1966
I may do that in the morning, and I don't want to take the bloom off the rose.
Mar 21, 1966
I don't believe the Congressmen are as worried as the Republican leaders are.
Mar 21, 1966
I, Lyndon B. Johnson,President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our American Merchant Marine on Monday, May 23, 1966, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes and…
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