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.
Sep 12, 1965
I hope you will soon be seeing and enjoying the results of the rehabilitation work that now gets underway on your home.
Sep 10, 1965
In so doing, we can strengthen our Nation, for our strength rests in the participation of all our citizens and not just some of our citizens.
Sep 10, 1965
No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.
Sep 10, 1965
I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 17, 1965, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed…
Sep 8, 1965
So the enactment of this legislation, and so many other measures of this Congress, represents the unified determination of this generation to preserve the best of the past by preparing to make the future better still.
Sep 8, 1965
Unless we seize the opportunities available now, the fears some have of a nightmare society could materialize.
Sep 8, 1965
I believe that we should seek, wherever possible, to encourage the participation of the private capital market in those Federal programs whose primary objective is the extension of credit.
Sep 7, 1965
The bill I am about to sign today represents a victory for the second school of thought.
Sep 7, 1965
On an average weekday more people enter and leave downtown Washington than visit Manhattan Island in New York City.
Sep 5, 1965
That growth means increased well-being for older people, widows and orphans everywhere in the Nation.
Sep 4, 1965
Finally, your report gives eloquent restatement to the basic principle that sound decisions in a free society must be built on the best possible information.
Sep 2, 1965
And so tonight I am going to leave the White House and go away to the hills of home, with my heart full of gratitude for the great progress that a united America has made this week.
Sep 1, 1965
I found it possible to exchange views with the steel negotiators at a particularly appropriate moment today.
Sep 1, 1965
The 89th Congress has responded more to this challenge than any Congress in our history.
Sep 1, 1965
If our astronauts can do what they did the other day--spend 8 days in space--we have got enough ingenuity, imagination, and determination here to get the job done with drought and floods.
Aug 30, 1965
It is the mission, therefore, of the USIA to be always loyal and always faithful and always vigilant to the course of the truth.
Aug 29, 1965
Second only to the search for peace, it is humanity's greatest challenge.
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