Feb 15, 1968
The imprint of your devoted and dynamic leadership goes deep beyond the day.
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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Feb 15, 1968
My concern for your health and knowledge of the physical stress that further duty would impose had prepared me for your decision.
Feb 15, 1968
I think we shouldn’t play politics with the war and try to associate it with name-calling.
Feb 15, 1968
I know the credibility problem. I cannot say to you that he will never leave.
Feb 15, 1968
You took office at an uncertain time in the history of the Department.
Feb 15, 1968
Does that make it clear to anybody and everybody, including all the foreign press that may want to pick it up?
Feb 14, 1968
The first order of business is the prompt enactment by the Congress of the penny on the dollar tax increase that we will need to pay for part of our extraordinary defense costs.
Feb 14, 1968
Today we are launching a program to provide work in community service projects for retired or unemployed citizens who are 55 and over.
Feb 14, 1968
When you can triple manpower and when you can more than double aid to poverty in one administration, it is something that you are not justified in saying is being completely neglected.
Feb 14, 1968
In December we signed a social security bill. It affected the lives of millions of people directly.
Feb 14, 1968
Education is one of the reasons, I think, that America leads the world.
Feb 14, 1968
While we have made great progress, we have just gone a few steps up a long road.
Feb 14, 1968
Medicare is now flourishing. More than 20 million senior citizens have its protection.
Feb 14, 1968
The goal of the National Conference of Christians and Jews was to change the beliefs of a nation, nothing less.
Feb 14, 1968
Do we really believe that men of different races and religions can live together in one land?
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