All executive departments and agencies shall cooperate with the Commission and furnish it such information and assistance, not inconsistent with law, as it may require in the performance of its functions and duties.
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 congratulate you, your Civil Service Commission colleagues, and all who have worked to make this unusual interagency experiment in career development the success that it has been.
We are going to keep our eyes on the stars and our feet on the ground.
There is hereby established the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (hereafter referred to as the 'Commission').
I am pleased by your report that the Center is making significant contributions to the excellence in the public service for which we strive.
We believe that mankind should have a choice, and we believe that mankind does have a choice today.
We are organizing, and planning, and mobilizing to win the wars that we have declared--and we will win them.
We also know that you want, as we want, peace with honor, and peace with freedom, and peace with dignity.
American families, like your families, Sir Patrick, devoutly want peace.
For if the dream is to become the reality, peace must be preserved for mankind, and peace is the purpose of all that we do.
Without the programs for which it acts as fiscal agent, the income netted by farmers would decline by half.
So, we are committed to win the wars that we have declared on the ancient enemies of mankind: ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and disease.
We never forget those great words of this Charter: To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.
The Commodity Credit Corporation as a visible expression of our commitment to abundance continues to be a servant of all people.
The legislation which I proposed this year, and which is now before the Congress, will help the Corporation to carry forward the objectives it should fulfill in the coming decade.
All we do at home and all we do throughout the world, is meant to assure men the right to 'freedom under law' and the right to expect impartial justice.
What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument in the continuing experiment each generation performs to demonstrate the vitality of our democracy.
I plan to take your proceedings and read them myself and to circulate them to every office of Government concerned with this subject.
We are far too easily satisfied when we know that a child has a desk in a classroom with a teacher to instruct him.
This central faith remains an unchallenged tenet of the American way of life.





