Oct 26, 1964
Nowhere, really, have the Communists taken over any governments, or have any governments gone communistic since Cuba in 1959.
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 26, 1964
That idea will not be put away on the dusty shelves of memorial libraries.
Oct 26, 1964
We must have land reform; we must have fiscal reform; we must have tax reform; we must have budget reform.
Oct 26, 1964
We have already cut both individual and corporate income tax liabilities by nearly one-fifth.
Oct 26, 1964
In God We Trust, this doesn't mean everybody for himself and the devil takes the hindmost.
Oct 26, 1964
He made them believe that they were better than they had thought they were; that perhaps, on earth, God's work could truly be their own.
Oct 26, 1964
The gross national product is up $40 billion, or 4.6 percent in stable dollars.
Oct 26, 1964
The Great Society under a Democratic President cares for all of them.
Oct 26, 1964
I took somewhat far-reaching steps to overhaul the machinery and to strengthen the personnel in the agencies that dealt with our neighbors in this hemisphere.
Oct 26, 1964
I am so angry I am going to go out and disgrace the entire family. I am going to register Republican!
Oct 26, 1964
It would be such a nice thing if these prophets of doom and gloom, and these apostles of fear and doubt, and these voices of smear and hate, and these suspicious persons who deal in petty things could just come here and see the heart of…
Oct 26, 1964
There is a feeling of friendship between the neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
Oct 26, 1964
When the people from Austin make a pact with the people of Boston, Mr. Speaker, that is a contract as long as I have breath in my body.
Oct 26, 1964
We feel a debt of gratitude and we want to, in part, repay it by working with our other neighbors.
Oct 26, 1964
But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.
Oct 26, 1964
The fulfillment of the promise of our Constitution, and an end to American poverty, are among such principles.
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