Jan 24, 1968
There have been times, in our history, when 'check and balance' really meant 'stop and freeze.'
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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Jan 23, 1968
Our Nation is committed to the best possible education for all our children.
Jan 23, 1968
You have a strong community action program—the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity—and it has brought you new hope by its job training and its home improvement and its legal services.
Jan 23, 1968
Pride, because in America we can achieve and protect these rights through the political process.
Jan 23, 1968
Our continuing challenge has been to preserve that diversity, without sacrificing our sense of national purpose; to encourage the development of individual excellence, without yielding in our pursuit of national excellence for all.
Jan 23, 1968
President Eisenhower and President Kennedy sought, as I seek now, the pathway to a world in which serenity may one day endure.
Jan 23, 1968
They have joined it with the brightest of new enterprise and they have led the tribe across another frontier of endless promise.
Jan 23, 1968
I urge the Congress to extend its life for three years and to authorize the necessary appropriations.
Jan 23, 1968
I speak for all Americans in saying how happy I am to share it with you.
Jan 23, 1968
You helped to tame it and to shape it by your courage and your wisdom.
Jan 23, 1968
The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency speaks for the United States in this critical area.
Jan 23, 1968
This year, 30 new kindergarten schools are going to rise up on your Navajo lands.
Jan 23, 1968
When this Treaty comes into force, it will be for all the world the brightest light at the end of the tunnel since 1945.
Jan 23, 1968
One year later, the world took the first great step toward nuclear sanity--the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
Jan 23, 1968
Just over five years ago the world looked over the brink of nuclear holocaust.
Jan 23, 1968
MOST Americans remain true to our goal: the development of a national society in which the color of a man's skin is as irrelevant as the color of his eyes.
Jan 23, 1968
A lesser people would have given in and perished—but instead, you gave all America a lesson in bravery and fortitude.
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