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.
Feb 9, 1966
We are a Nation of differences, and the values and principles that protect those differences are the source of a unity far more lasting and strong than any contrived harmony could ever be.
Feb 9, 1966
We must encourage a truly international effort to combat hunger and modernize agriculture.
Feb 9, 1966
But candor requires that I warn you the time is not far off when all the combined production, on all of the acres, of all of the agriculturally productive nations, will not meet the food needs of the developing nations–unless present…
Feb 9, 1966
Our 60 million acres now diverted to conservation uses represent the major emergency reserve that could readily be called forth in the critical race between food and population.
Feb 9, 1966
We recognize those accomplishments today by conferring on these men the National Medal of Science, the highest tribute their Government can pay them.
Feb 9, 1966
I urge Congress to consider and debate these suggestions thoroughly and wisely in the hope and belief we can from them fashion a program that will keep free men free, and at the same time share our leadership and agricultural resources…
Feb 9, 1966
One new element in today’s world is the threat of mass hunger and starvation.
Feb 9, 1966
Placing the Community Relations Service within the Justice Department will enhance the ability of the Justice Department to mediate and conciliate and will insure that the Federal Government speaks with a unified voice in those tense…
Feb 9, 1966
That hunger and want--anywhere--are the eternal enemies of all mankind.
Feb 9, 1966
That an abundant harvest is not only a gift of God, but also the product of man's skill and determination and commitment.
Feb 9, 1966
I propose that the United States lead the world in a war against hunger.
Feb 9, 1966
The productive capacity of American agriculture can and should produce enough food and fiber to provide for: 1. domestic needs, 2. commercial exports, 3. food aid to those developing countries that are determined to help themselves, 4…
Feb 9, 1966
For they will truly know if we fail at the moment of man's greatest opportunity, the fault will lay not in the stars, but the fault will lay in ourselves.
Feb 9, 1966
It proclaims our commitment to a better world society--where every person can hope for life's essentials--and be able to find them in peace.
Feb 9, 1966
In the light of these facts, the accompanying reorganization plan would transfer the functions of the Community Relations Service and of its Director to the Attorney General.
Feb 9, 1966
One man alone with his conscience-whether in the laboratory, or the study, or the classroom, or on the street corner--is to be jealously guarded from the thousand who, believing him wrong, would deny his right to search and his right to…
Feb 9, 1966
The Community Relations Service was located in the Department of Commerce by the Congress on the assumption that a primary need would be the conciliation of disputes arising out of the public accommodations title of the act.
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