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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 · 1963–19698,888 total · peak 1966 (3339)
1963: 81 quotes1964: 2,112 quotes1965: 1,507 quotes1966: 3,339 quotes1967: 1,094 quotes1968: 750 quotes1969: 5 quotes
Jan 25, 1968

It also says something about the man who leads those men and the man who prepares those men for the call they must answer.

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Jan 25, 1968

Probably the most powerful head of steam ever created is that of young people trying to set on fire a world that they think is all wet.

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Jan 25, 1968

I look at you young people--the smartest, the healthiest, the most prosperous, the best dressed, with more creature comforts and more advantages than your fathers or your grandfathers ever dreamed of, and yet you are the most…

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Jan 25, 1968

Today I extend the Nation's gratitude to another Marine officer.

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Jan 25, 1968

We shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and a peaceful solution to the problem.

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Jan 24, 1968

Today I submit to the Senate for its advice and consent the International Grains Arrangement of 1967.

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Jan 24, 1968

Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense.

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Jan 24, 1968

You may count on my continued strong support in any way I can be helpful.

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Jan 24, 1968

But after the strong opinions have been aired, the people want progress.

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Jan 24, 1968

The great periods of progress in America have come when the leaders of each branch were more concerned with making progress than with establishing their predominance.

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Jan 24, 1968

America's wheat farmers have supported the pricing provisions of previous wheat agreements.

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Jan 24, 1968

We have many dinners in this house during the course of a year.

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Jan 24, 1968

Mr. Williams, we are very pleased to have you with us and I shall look forward with pleasure to seeing the Conference's first report.

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Jan 24, 1968

By virtue of the authority vested in me by paragraph (e) of title I of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1967 (80 Stat. 981), and as President of the United States, I hereby order the following units of the Ready Reserve of the…

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Jan 24, 1968

So tonight, here in the First House of the Land, we have come to celebrate these great institutions of our Government.

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Jan 24, 1968

The rise of administrative bodies probably has been the most significant legal trend of the last century .... Perhaps more values today are affected by their decisions than by those of all the courts.

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Jan 24, 1968

For this is the night when we pay formal tribute to a great American institution: the famous system of 'checks and balances.'

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Jan 24, 1968

Even he couldn't have predicted how deeply the administrative process would penetrate the life of the American citizen in this year--1968.

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Jan 24, 1968

Hubert Humphrey is loyal to the Senate-John McCormack to the House--and Earl Warren to the Court.

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Jan 24, 1968

I am pleased that you are going to undertake leadership in the area of pressing urban problems.

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Jan 24, 1968

I have appreciated your willingness to stay in government beyond the term of your original commitment.

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Jan 24, 1968

You have served your Nation and your President well and faithfully.

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