Oct 25, 1964
We will keep America on the tried and the tested and the trusted course of responsibility, and in this nuclear age, neither we nor the world can afford even a moment of recklessness, not even a breath of bluff or bluster.
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 25, 1964
Instead, we have chosen the slower but surer path of progress through a more competitive, efficient, and prosperous domestic economy.
Oct 25, 1964
The American nation seeks constantly to foster the development of free nations cooperating for their mutual benefit.
Oct 25, 1964
I think, I hope, and I believe that you are going to have a Democratic President to work with them.
Oct 25, 1964
Our interest in your example is greatly heightened by our own efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the United States.
Oct 25, 1964
Your President will have in his hand, inescapably, the power of life and death for hundreds of millions of people on this planet.
Oct 25, 1964
This progress has not come at the expense of our other vital responsibilities.
Oct 25, 1964
One hundred years is long enough to burden down our future with the divisions of the past.
Oct 25, 1964
In this world in which we live the most vital decision that you are going to be called upon to make is the man and the party that you select to lead you in the next 4 years.
Oct 25, 1964
No man ever came from any people or from any State who has fought harder for justice and peace and honor and prosperity than this outstanding southerner of our times--Olin Johnston.
Oct 25, 1964
We seek the elimination of violence and aggression of any sort in relations among nations, and we support the economic and social development of each nation in the interest of the development of all nations.
Oct 25, 1964
Lasting peace between peoples in the world is tonight within our sight and within our grasp.
Oct 25, 1964
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
Oct 25, 1964
In the future as in the past, our monetary system must remain flexible, and not be bound by any rigid, mechanical rules.
Oct 25, 1964
I pledge my friendship and that of my people and country in the years ahead.
Oct 25, 1964
We rejoice that Zambia has become free and now joins the other independent states of Africa in seeking a better life for its people.
Oct 25, 1964
We must exercise great care against any use of this power to destroy the world, to poison the world's atmosphere, or to cripple any single human being.
Oct 25, 1964
We look forward to close cooperation with you and your Government in pursuing these mutual objectives in the councils of the world and in our relations with each other.
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