Dec 15, 1964
I have asked Mr. Meany to meet with me and other members of American labor before we leave for the Christmas holidays to discuss our program for the coming years.
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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Dec 14, 1964
I am very happy to have heard your impressions of Soviet science and technology, based on your 2-week visit to Soviet Russia.
Dec 14, 1964
This is another fine example of the willingness of American businessmen and scientists to give of themselves for the public good.
Dec 14, 1964
I am asking all agencies of the Government on our side to make sure that we're going as far as we can to extend this hand of peaceful contact to the Soviet people, without in any way endangering our security.
Dec 13, 1964
A doubling or tripling of the electricity requirements in this country by the year 1980 presents a challenge to the nation that can and must be met.
Dec 13, 1964
The encouragement of greater cooperation and coordination among the nation's 3600 individual electric power systems should result in the economies of large-scale operation benefiting the consumer in every section of the country without…
Dec 13, 1964
It is obvious that the building of the Great Society rests, in part, on an abundant supply of low cost energy.
Dec 13, 1964
The experience of the past few decades demonstrates conclusively how the standard of living of American citizens has continued to rise as we have developed greater supplies of electrical energy.
Dec 11, 1964
I hope the Vice President-elect will assume a role similar to the one I filled as Chairman of the Peace Corps National Advisory Council.
Dec 11, 1964
I am also asking Vice President-elect Humphrey to take a leading role in the war on poverty.
Dec 11, 1964
I call upon the members of this Council to meet as often as necessary, to recommend whatever actions need to be taken, and to carry out whatever tasks must be done to wage this war effectively.
Dec 11, 1964
Your job is to help me in making policy and program decisions in waging this war.
Dec 11, 1964
I LOOK to this body as a domestic national security council for the war on poverty.
Dec 9, 1964
One of the Presidents that I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago.
Dec 9, 1964
For, as the problem of civil rights has grown in urgency, it has also grown in complexity.
Dec 9, 1964
I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through efforts that you have made and others like you that the shackles of bondage have been removed from your fellow man.
Dec 9, 1964
Our first objective will always be to assure nondiscriminatory operation rather than to put an end to programs which are vital to the welfare of all Americans.
Dec 9, 1964
I want the Government of all of the people to speak with a single voice on this single question.
Dec 8, 1964
Through most of my career--and through most of your adult lives--the thrust of our public policies and attitudes has been dominated by memory of the stock market crash, the great depression, and the events of the 1930's that led back to…
Dec 8, 1964
Will Rogers once made a very wise observation. He said: 'We are a funny people. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, and then go home and start daring 'era to make good.'
Dec 8, 1964
Today our system, our society--and our Government, of which you are soon to be part--stand as the most successful in the history of man.
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