Even the greatest of past civilizations existed on the exploitation of the many.
Lyndon Johnson
The Public Record
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.
Mine is not a campaign of personalities, mine is not a campaign of mudslinging.
I have taken a long journey from a tenant farm in West Texas to this platform in Madison Square Garden.
We will work to protect the old and feed the hungry, and care for the helpless.
Franklin Roosevelt once said, \Too many who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were. Democracy should concern itself also with things as they should be.\
The whole United States is watching and waiting for you to elect a new Governor in Michigan, Neil Staebler.
I am proud to ask my Nation's trust in the continued building of its bipartisan foreign policy.
I am proud to be here today in the city of Milwaukee, and in your famous 14th Ward.
We are not going to repeal that prosperity and that progress next Tuesday.
When I assumed the oath of office, I said to the American people and to the world that with God's help and with your prayers, I would do the best I could.
We must build new bridges, new bridges to the friendly peoples of Eastern Europe.
So the task for the United States is to keep our policies flexible, to keep them responsible, and to search for new opportunities to favor freedom in a rapidly changing world.





