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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.

Quotes by year · 196319698,890 total · peak 1966 (3339)
1963: 81 quotes1964: 2,112 quotes1965: 1,508 quotes1966: 3,339 quotes1967: 1,095 quotes1968: 750 quotes1969: 5 quotes
Aug 2, 1965

I take pleasure in submitting the first annual report of the Commission.

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Aug 2, 1965

I do hereby designate Monday, October 11, 1965, as General Pulaski's Memorial Day

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Aug 2, 1965

I also invite the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies in honor of the memory of General Pulaski

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Aug 2, 1965

This week we're going to have the most comprehensive housing bill in 50 years, to try to permit every person to have a roof over the head of his wife and his children.

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Aug 2, 1965

I wish to reiterate the importance which I attach to pressing forward with plans and preparations for a sea-level canal.

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Aug 2, 1965

This Congress this week will pass a voting rights bill that will give every American, regardless of his economic status, or where he lives, or what kind of a dress or suit he wears, or what his color is, or what his religion is-he will…

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Aug 2, 1965

And to you and Mrs. Clifton and your family, I want you to know that wherever you go, whatever you do, we will be pulling for you, we will be remembering that the day was never too long, the night too dark, for you to do what the boss…

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Aug 2, 1965

We have declared war on ignorance and illiteracy, we have declared war on poverty, we have declared war on disease, and we have declared war on tyranny and aggression.

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Aug 2, 1965

I don't want to go back there until I have to, and I thought you would probably enjoy coming to the White House equally as much.

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Aug 2, 1965

I think this is needed for the protection and promotion of peaceful trade, as well as for the welfare of the Hemisphere.

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Aug 2, 1965

I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here.

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Aug 2, 1965

One of the oldest and one of the most honored offices of the Government of the United States is the Office of Military Aide to the President of the United States.

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Aug 2, 1965

And in appreciation for what you have done, and with the personal thanks for the support that you have given to both President Kennedy and to me, it gives me a great deal of personal pleasure in awarding you, this morning, here among your…

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Aug 2, 1965

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Coast Guard on August 4…

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Jul 31, 1965

I want him to be absolutely certain there is no waste or misapplication of American manpower in the Department of Defense effort.

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Jul 31, 1965

At this time I want you to be absolutely certain that there is no waste or misapplication of America's manpower in the Department of Defense.

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Jul 30, 1965

The Secretary of the Treasury (acting through the Coast Guard) shall establish all necessary regulations required to carry out in the most effective manner the provisions of the Convention.

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Jul 30, 1965

Each of the Secretaries and the Commission shall cooperate and assist the others in carrying out the duties imposed by the Convention and by this order.

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Jul 30, 1965

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code and as President of the United States of America, it is ordered as follows:

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Jul 30, 1965

This order supersedes Executive Order No. 10402 of October 30, 1952, entitled 'Enforcement of the Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, 1948,' to the extent that the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea signed at London on…

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Jul 29, 1965

And no longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes, eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents, and to their uncles, and their aunts.

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Jul 29, 1965

No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years.

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Jul 29, 1965

And those devoted public servants, former Secretary, Senator Ribicoff; present Secretary, Tony Celebrezze; Under Secretary Wilbur Cohen; the Democratic whip of the House, Hale Boggs on the Ways and Means Committee; and really the White…

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