I want to add the congratulations of your President on this signal occasion.
Lyndon Johnson
The Public Record
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.
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…
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.
No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.
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.
Unless we seize the opportunities available now, the fears some have of a nightmare society could materialize.
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.
On an average weekday more people enter and leave downtown Washington than visit Manhattan Island in New York City.
The bill I am about to sign today represents a victory for the second school of thought.
That growth means increased well-being for older people, widows and orphans everywhere in the Nation.
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.
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.
I found it possible to exchange views with the steel negotiators at a particularly appropriate moment today.
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.
The 89th Congress has responded more to this challenge than any Congress in our history.
It is the mission, therefore, of the USIA to be always loyal and always faithful and always vigilant to the course of the truth.
Second only to the search for peace, it is humanity's greatest challenge.
We ask nothing for ourselves that we do not also ask for all of humanity.





