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.
Mar 16, 1966
With your leadership and with your personal commitment to this objective, I have high confidence and great hope that we can build a government where talent and energy and integrity will prevail and where discrimination will not.
Mar 16, 1966
Our Government has long been one avenue by which members of minorities have entered into full participation of our national life.
Mar 16, 1966
A Negro scholar and exceptional administrator for the first time sits in the President's Cabinet.
Mar 16, 1966
I intend to do everything I can to see that the goal is finally reached.
Mar 16, 1966
If our magnificent young men can die for freedom in a foreign land, how can we refuse any of them a full measure of freedom and opportunity here at home?
Mar 16, 1966
If members of minority groups can't be employed because they can't find housing, then we must find housing.
Mar 16, 1966
So I challenge each of you here today, and each of you within the sound of my voice, to try to accept this as your own creed.
Mar 16, 1966
Too many of our fellow citizens do not get the education or the training that they need to become productive members of our society.
Mar 16, 1966
I want this administration to be recognized as one in which we finally achieve full and equal opportunity for persons of every race, color, creed, and nationality.
Mar 16, 1966
The Civil Service Commission, acting under the authority of Executive Order 11246, has issued new regulations which will become effective on and after April 3d.
Mar 16, 1966
As long as any American is denied the chance to fully develop and to use his talents, to become all that he can be, then every American is less than he should be.
Mar 16, 1966
Too many of our fellow citizens are still restrained by a straitjacket that was strapped upon them by the mere accident of their birth.
Mar 15, 1966
I interviewed about 19 men throughout the United States and finally selected Jim Webb, and I prevailed upon him to come and begin this undertaking.
Mar 15, 1966
And what is that case? It is simply that there is no rest from the trials of freedom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of…
Mar 15, 1966
I hope they, too, expect me to try to keep on making my case for realism.
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