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.
Jan 17, 1966
In Class III-A shall be placed any registrant who has a child or children with whom he maintains a bona fide family relationship in their home and who is not a physician, dentist or veterinarian, or who is not in an allied specialist…
Jan 17, 1966
This search for peace is no less significant by being relatively unseen and unheard in a world in which men talk more loudly of issues that seem to divide them than they do of common interests that can unite them.
Jan 17, 1966
Though you build quietly, you build no less firmly the sure foundations of societies in which free men can truly know and enjoy the possibilities of cultural interchange in this hemisphere.
Jan 17, 1966
One of the strongest links between this Government and its citizenry has been the United States Savings Bond program.
Jan 17, 1966
Today, above all, is a time for all Americans to rededicate themselves to the spirit that animated the Minutemen of Concord.
Jan 17, 1966
We must all do our share--in every way we can--to support our men in Vietnam.
Jan 17, 1966
I HAVE a special pleasure in welcoming to Washington the delegates to the fourth meeting of the Inter-American Cultural Council.
Jan 17, 1966
We in our country stand in need of greater knowledge and understanding of the old and honored cultures to the south of us; and we likewise stand in readiness to help those in the other American Republics who wish to understand us better by…
Jan 17, 1966
We must not, and will not, at this juncture, permit our strength to be sapped by inflation.
Jan 16, 1966
We have made progress toward the establishment of an Asian Development Bank, and accelerated plans for development of the critical Mekong River Basin.
Jan 16, 1966
Now today, I am asking Mr. Shriver to give full time to the war on poverty.
Jan 16, 1966
There is much in the less-developed world that causes us deep concern today.
Jan 16, 1966
Foreign assistance has become a smaller factor in our balance of payments.
Jan 14, 1966
I therefore intend to seek the necessary funds from the Congress to restore the postal services that were curtailed in 1964.
Jan 14, 1966
I have said in the past, and I repeat now, that I want you to provide this country with the finest mail service it has ever known, while managing the Post Office Department efficiently and prudently.
Jan 14, 1966
I approve your recommendations to improve postal service by increasing post office window hours and by restoring six-day parcel post delivery service.
Jan 14, 1966
I want you to explore all the techniques available to modernize our postal service and make certain that they are being used to provide the American people with the best postal system in the world at the lowest possible cost to the…
Jan 13, 1966
I believe that during 1965 the dual aims of the Agreement--adequate supplies of coffee to consumers and markets for coffee to producers at equitable prices--have been met.
Jan 13, 1966
I am also confident that the Congress will view with satisfaction the spirit of international cooperation that has increasingly come to characterize the operation of this Agreement.
Jan 12, 1966
To bring together a staff of experts, assemble the outstanding men in this country without regard to politics or party, but only with regard to serving the needs of this Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Jan 12, 1966
I have reached a decision today that I am now delighted to announce to you and to the country.
Jan 11, 1966
I have not come here tonight to ask for pleasant luxuries or for idle pleasures.
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