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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.
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…
We have peace in the world and we have peace between the employer and the employee.
It should also strengthen existing programs of Federal-State-local cooperation in such vital areas as public assistance, public health, urban renewal, highways, recreation, and education.
We are going to expand that social security system and we are going to strengthen it.
It is great to be back in the biggest city in America, to see the biggest crowds of all time, and to have you tell me that you are going to the polls next Tuesday and give the Democrats the biggest election victory in the history of…
The administration did not get everything it initially proposed to the Congress in the area of income tax reform; but many significant reforms were enacted.
In the nuclear age, the President does not get a chance to make a second guess.
While we make ourselves strong at home, we must keep our guard up abroad.
California and San Bernardino are a growing State and a growing city--and a growing population needs a growing economy.
The responsible leaders of both political parties worked together for the good of the country.
This administration carried through the most extensive overhaul of our tax system since the war.
Our photographs showed us that the Soviet Union had brought within 90 miles of our shores enough missiles to seriously handicap and destroy large portions of this country.
I want to see this city and this county stand up and be counted on the side of responsible government for this Nation and for peace in the world.
It is mighty easy to talk like a bravado when you are talking about someone else's sons, but when you get up where your thumb has the responsibility for touching that button, and you get to thinking about the consequences of that act that…
The first thing that you ought to get in your noggin is telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.
What they do want to know is how do we feel about the bread and butter issues that feed their families.
This is a great Democratic Tuesday in Pittsburgh, and a week from tonight it is going to be a great Democratic Tuesday.
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