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.
Mar 31, 1965
It did not propose to overcome all the deficiencies at once, but it did propose a substantial start.
Mar 31, 1965
This new building will be one more symbol of our solidarity with the people of Viet-Nam.
Mar 31, 1965
No, I have no indication and no evidence that they are ready and willing to negotiate under conditions that would be productive.
Mar 31, 1965
I want my administration to be remembered, if it is remembered, for what it did to improve the minds and what it did to improve the bodies of all the people of this country.
Mar 31, 1965
I would be very happy to see them accept it because I think when we know each other better, when they learn what we are doing here in America, that there will be better understanding.
Mar 31, 1965
This year I borrowed the money the other day to pay the Government a tax of $100,000.
Mar 31, 1965
Our country must be guided by sound and successful and wise fiscal policies.
Mar 31, 1965
And your grandchildren can look at this picture and say that you were here fighting the battle for children yet unborn.
Mar 31, 1965
I have not come to ask, I have come to tell, and I want you to do the same thing.
Mar 31, 1965
Education is the most economical investment that we can make in this Nation's future.
Mar 30, 1965
Increasingly the emphasis is on using our agricultural commodities to support projects that help eliminate the need for continued food aid.
Mar 30, 1965
Food For Peace is, above all, a program which expresses the great and generous heart of the American people--and is a worthy expression of the compassion always so much a part of America's character.
Mar 30, 1965
It is based on mutual trust and will result in mutual benefit--benefit to producers, to labor, and to consumers on both sides of the border.
Mar 30, 1965
Yours has been a strong voice for sense and sanity--as well as for innovation--in the nation's monetary affairs.
Mar 30, 1965
Nor can we afford to shut out large numbers of our fellow citizens from the fulfillment of hope which is shared by the rest of us.
Mar 30, 1965
The Food For Peace program has made a significant contribution to the world attack on hunger and malnutrition--still the most grave health problem of the world.
Mar 30, 1965
During your tenure, the Treasury accomplished with unexampled skill the difficult task of financing our debt without inflation.
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