Mar 31, 1965
All of us are concerned with juvenile delinquency in the District, and I can think of no more regressive step we could take than to force all of these children back onto the streets and into the alleys.
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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Mar 31, 1965
We will try to take such measures as are appropriate and fitting and measures that are calculated to deter the aggressor.
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
Oh, what a privilege it is to participate in the efforts that are being made in this decade!
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
Our country must be guided by sound and successful and wise fiscal policies.
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
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 know that those associated with me in the White House love peace and hate war.
Mar 31, 1965
I think that we will be exchanging viewpoints on how we can improve America's position and how we can be of increased help, give increased efficiency to our effort to help the South Vietnamese people.
Mar 30, 1965
Today about 40 percent of our government's economic development assistance overseas is in the form of agricultural commodities and local currencies received from their sale.
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
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
During your tenure, the Treasury accomplished with unexampled skill the difficult task of financing our debt without inflation.
Mar 30, 1965
Yours has been a strong voice for sense and sanity--as well as for innovation--in the nation's monetary affairs.
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