May 31, 1965
To support our own effort, I ask the Congress to authorize and appropriate for FY 1966 an additional $89 million for the Agency for International Development for expanded programs of economic and social development in Southeast Asia.
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.
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May 31, 1965
I ask the Congress, as part of our continuing affirmation of America's faith in the cause of man, to respond promptly and fully to this request.
May 31, 1965
This is what I believe the American people expect of their President.
May 31, 1965
Education's greatest gift is a spacious and a skeptical mind--a curious mind.
May 31, 1965
You must give the hours of your life, and the fruits of your learning, and the courage of your spirit, and the substance of your home to those in need in every continent of the earth.
May 31, 1965
I hope that I will have other opportunities to express myself on the subject of Kermit Gordon
May 31, 1965
Our role will be vital, but we hope that all other industrialized nations, including the Soviet Union, will participate.
May 27, 1965
There are very few deliberative bodies that have the reputation that you members of the Senate have--charity toward one another.
May 27, 1965
For more than 51 consecutive months, we have had the longest peacetime expansion America has ever known.
May 27, 1965
We shall be just, and we shall be prudent, and we shall also be prompt and brave, for we are determined here in America that peace shall not perish, and the cause of freedom shall not be failed.
May 27, 1965
From that day to this, I have been dedicated--as I shall be while there is breath in me--to that system's strength and its stability and its success.
May 27, 1965
The United States made its forces a part of that Inter-American Force.
May 27, 1965
These young men and women will go to the barrios of Santo Domingo and Santiago to work with and to work for the people of the Dominican Republic in attaining a new life and a new hope.
May 27, 1965
It was here, at my father's side, that I was first exposed to the strength, the vitality, and the enduring value of our system of representative democracy.
May 26, 1965
This Government has repeatedly stated its conviction that steadily mounting nuclear stock does not--repeat--does not insure the security of any nation and that the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries threatens the security of…
May 26, 1965
Weapons have themselves become a cause of fear and a cause of distrust among other nations.
May 26, 1965
I have stressed that we must reorganize and modernize the Government's organization structure in order to focus responsibilities, increase efficiency, and meet present-day needs more effectively.
May 26, 1965
The plan will make it possible for the Commission to utilize its personnel more efficiently.
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