Lyndon Johnson

MANY happy returns on your birthday.

I have heard a lot of talk during my 35 years in public life about the power of the press, and particularly the power of Life, Time, Fortune, and a few other publications associated with you.

I hope when we meet here again that we'll have more trees and more flowers here on this somewhat rather sacred spot.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universal Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No…

I thank you sincerely for your help in this most vital area of our foreign policy.

The people of the District of Columbia, I think deserve and I think must and will have home rule.

I believe that it should be acted on before the Congress gets out of here.

Yes, sir. We have detailed action planned that we worked on until late in the evening last night.

Yes, I think that the steel situation is on almost every citizen's mind in this country.

No, I think that our operations have been up to our expectations.

God grant you peace in your distress.

God grant us all an end to violence and a renewed commitment to human brotherhood.

Thurgood Marshall is the first Negro in the history of the United States ever to become the Solicitor General.

Thurgood Marshall symbolizes what is best about our American society: the belief that human rights must be satisfied through the orderly processes of law.

No one who knew him thought that he would say 'no' when a new and an even more compelling challenge was presented to him by his President.

It is really difficult to remember that it was 5 years ago that it was only an idea in the minds of a very few thoughtful men.

I hope that you will come in and pay your respects before you leave the Rose Garden.

The Government's paramount interest 'is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.'

Today, under the rather dynamic, personable, and I think very farsighted leadership of Sargent Shriver, and the very unusual, highly qualified people that he has brought to his vicinity, 12,500 Americans are part of the Peace Corps.

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

They are calling human beings together in a hundred ways to cope with the problems of the city and the village life.

We labor towards the day when the cause of brotherhood may prevail, and the violence that sometimes scars the face of America may be ended.

I GRIEVE with you in the death of your son.

Many of them will never even begin the new term.

In addition to the constitutional principle involved, effective national defense in this nuclear age requires flexibility in the management of our defense installations, including the assignment of their respective missions.