There is a feeling of friendship between the neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
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.
The fulfillment of the promise of our Constitution, and an end to American poverty, are among such principles.
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…
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.
We must have land reform; we must have fiscal reform; we must have tax reform; we must have budget reform.
But where great principles are at stake, compromise must not obscure the demands of justice.
This is a great Democratic Tuesday in Pittsburgh, and a week from tonight it is going to be a great Democratic Tuesday.
Nowhere, really, have the Communists taken over any governments, or have any governments gone communistic since Cuba in 1959.
The Great Society under a Democratic President cares for all of them.
In God We Trust, this doesn't mean everybody for himself and the devil takes the hindmost.
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.
That idea will not be put away on the dusty shelves of memorial libraries.
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.
We have already cut both individual and corporate income tax liabilities by nearly one-fifth.
I am so angry I am going to go out and disgrace the entire family. I am going to register Republican!
The gross national product is up $40 billion, or 4.6 percent in stable dollars.
We feel a debt of gratitude and we want to, in part, repay it by working with our other neighbors.





