Oct 28, 1964
Around the world more millions are enslaved by hunger than by tyrants.
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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Oct 28, 1964
President Kennedy returned from Salt Lake City knowing, as he had not known before, that the people of America supported his efforts to make this world safer for all mankind.
Oct 28, 1964
For every man who labors, there must be respect for his rights and opportunity for his advancement in a growing America.
Oct 28, 1964
The guideposts are a sound basis for continued price stability and are increasingly important as our economy rises closer and closer to its full potential.
Oct 28, 1964
Since 1961 the wholesale price record in the United States is the best of any major country in the world.
Oct 28, 1964
We must provide for our children an opportunity for the best education that he or she can absorb, because in this technological age they are going to be at a great disadvantage if they have not accumulated all the information and knowledge…
Oct 28, 1964
Average wage and benefit increases have not exceeded the long-run rise in the productivity of our workers, so that labor cost per unit of output has not risen since the beginning of 1961.
Oct 28, 1964
The term 'guideposts' conveys exactly what was intended--not hard and fast prescriptions for every wage settlement or price decision--but criteria for responsible action by both labor and business.
Oct 28, 1964
In your lifetime and mine, there has never been a moment when America more needed its unity, or the world more needed a united America, than today.
Oct 28, 1964
Wholesale prices are, on the average, 0.1 percent below 5 years ago, and down 0.3 percent since the beginning of this year.
Oct 27, 1964
California and San Bernardino are a growing State and a growing city--and a growing population needs a growing economy.
Oct 27, 1964
The Golden Rule says, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'
Oct 27, 1964
At home we are going to continue the unprecedented prosperity of the last 45 months of the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson administration.
Oct 27, 1964
The big question you have to decide is how can the United States formulate a policy and prepare a program that can get these people to learn to live in a world together without using our rockets and without dropping our bombs, and without…
Oct 27, 1964
Every mother here is more concerned with peace and keeping her boys from going to war than she is with her own life.
Oct 27, 1964
We have peace in the world and we have peace between the employer and the employee.
Oct 27, 1964
While we make ourselves strong at home, we must keep our guard up abroad.
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