Mar 14, 1966
Your careful control over every dollar of Government spending will not only avoid direct waste of our resources, but will also help prevent the indirect and inequitable waste that results from the deterioration of the dollar's value.
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 14, 1966
It was imperative to hold 1966 expenditures to the absolute minimum required for carrying out essential responsibilities.
Mar 14, 1966
Therefore, I have asked the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to organize an education program in these techniques at several universities.
Mar 14, 1966
Let me remind you that it was just 25 years ago that the Congress extended the Selective Service Act by only one vote.
Mar 14, 1966
The need for people in each department well trained in modern management methods is great.
Mar 14, 1966
In my Baltimore declaration of April of last year, I said to the people of the world how much we would welcome taking some of the funds that we are now spending in bombs and bullets and putting in efforts to rid that area of disease and…
Mar 14, 1966
It is a lesson which we should have learned long ago for it was really one of our Founding Fathers, John Jay, who warned us: 'It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever…
Mar 14, 1966
How joyous it would be if these great resources could he put, instead, to the service of peace.
Mar 14, 1966
Our purpose is to demonstrate to the remaining advocates of violence that there is more human profit to be had from peace than there is from war.
Mar 14, 1966
The overwhelming vote on this measure also testifies that we may have learned something from recent history.
Mar 14, 1966
The bill that we have come here to approve this morning authorizes appropriations of more than $4 billion, 800 million for the support of the Defense Establishment of the United States of America.
Mar 14, 1966
I believe that many of the world's nations have since learned the final futility of war.
Mar 14, 1966
Another way is to train the most able and promising people now on your staff in modern techniques of program analysis and management.
Mar 14, 1966
I want you to nominate some of your most able people for this intensive training in modern, analytic methods.
Mar 14, 1966
How sad it is that such great sums must be spent for the bombs and the planes and the gunpowders of war.
Mar 14, 1966
One way you can meet this need is to recruit as many of the best, analytically trained people as you can find.
Mar 14, 1966
It is my greatest wish to someday stand here and sign another bill, one that is designed to bring progress and fulfillment to a Southeast Asia which is at peace with itself and also at peace with the rest of the world.
Mar 14, 1966
The American people deserve, and demand, that the Government apply to its operations the most efficient management techniques available.
Mar 13, 1966
I am very proud of the achievements of the Federal-State vocational rehabilitation program in rehabilitating disabled citizens.
Mar 13, 1966
While human values are always our prime consideration, we should not ignore the sound public investment that would result by reducing our public welfare rolls through vocational rehabilitation.
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