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.
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 30, 1965
The Food For Peace program is one of the most inspiring enterprises ever undertaken by any nation in all of history-and every American can be proud of it, without regard to partisanship or political persuasion.
Mar 30, 1965
As you leave to take a well earned rest, I want you to know that I fully intend to call upon you to serve your country again.
Mar 30, 1965
In signing the Agreement, I pledged myself to ask the Congress to authorize the President to remove all United States duties on Canadian automobiles and parts for original equipment.
Mar 30, 1965
Although I understand your reasons for leaving government service, I accept your resignation, effective at the time you suggested, only with the greatest reluctance.
Mar 30, 1965
Under your able leadership, the Treasury Department has been a major force in bringing our economy out of recession into an economic upsurge.
Mar 30, 1965
Reimbursements to the Commodity Credit Corporation through 1964 by U.S. Government agencies utilizing these currencies totaled almost $1.1 billion.
Mar 30, 1965
I recommend that the Congress take early action on this legislation so that this program will be in effect when the present Area Redevelopment Act expires on June 30, 1965.
Mar 30, 1965
None of us must ever forget that all of us are servants of the people.
Mar 29, 1965
President Johnson expressed his admiration for President Yameogo's vigorous efforts to improve the economic and social well-being of the Voltan people and to secure cooperation and peace in Africa.
Mar 28, 1965
We are particularly pleased that you come today as the first state visitor to Washington since our inauguration earlier this year.
Mar 28, 1965
We must spare no effort in learning how to desalt these waters economically.
Mar 28, 1965
I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of May 2 through May 8, 1965, as Professional Photography Week, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe that week with…
Mar 28, 1965
I hope, sir, when you return, that you will take with you this message.
Mar 28, 1965
But we are enemies always of human privation and prejudice--and we shall not rest until justice prevails throughout the world against these adversaries.
Mar 28, 1965
I hereby call upon the American people to remember and to reflect upon that spirit of national unity.
Mar 28, 1965
There is a strong and a swelling interest in your continent and in your country.
Mar 28, 1965
We invite and welcome the attention of all nations--young and old--to the agenda of the Congress of the United States.
Mar 28, 1965
Ours is much more than just a material commitment, for we keep a moral commitment, too.
Mar 28, 1965
In America today, this generation of Americans is determined to fulfill that ideal by all that we do in the world and by all that we do here at home.
Mar 28, 1965
I urge those who can do so to attend the centennial ceremonies to be held at the Bennett Place, near the City of Durham, North Carolina, on April 25, 1965.
Mar 28, 1965
So long as men anywhere live in poverty, so long as their bodies are afflicted with disease and their children are denied the light of education, this great and restless Nation that we call America will be searching without ceasing for…
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