Oct 11, 1964
I haven't been here very long, but I don't have to be here very long now to see how the West is going to be won.
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 11, 1964
Working together with the people of Nevada, that great democratic State leading the way, we will continue it.
Oct 11, 1964
The future of this Nation lies here in the West, but you must have leadership.
Oct 11, 1964
We have more bombers, we have more missiles, we have well trained men.
Oct 11, 1964
Education should be open to every boy and girl born in America up to the highest level they can take.
Oct 11, 1964
Our opponent has said: 'The child has no right to an education. In most cases, the children will get along very well without it.'
Oct 11, 1964
We passed the biggest tax cut, a $12 billion tax cut, in the history of the Nation.
Oct 10, 1964
Efficiency in government should be not the cause of stagnation but the companion of progress.
Oct 10, 1964
I want to say a deep thank you from the bottom of my heart for your warm welcome to this wonderful State of sunshine here in Arizona.
Oct 10, 1964
I have never preached hate, I have never preached doubt, I have never preached fear, I have never preached division, and I never will.
Oct 10, 1964
I am going to leave with Roy now in just a moment and I won't be seeing you any more, but I am coming back to these wonderful, happy, smiling faces, and this dry air and this fine sunshine because it is good and it invigorates you.
Oct 10, 1964
I want to tell you how grateful I am that Arizona furnishes one of our Cabinet members, Stewart Udall, and his lovely wife, and I am very proud of him.
Oct 10, 1964
Now, all of you people out here have faith and have hope and have vision or you wouldn't be in this 'Promised Land of Arizona.'
Oct 10, 1964
This is one of the most important issues of the campaign--whether the Government is going to turn its back on the mounting needs of a growing country under the pretense of a 'conservative fiscal philosophy.'
Oct 10, 1964
When the next President of the United States takes the oath of office next January, the year 2000 will be closer to us than the year 1929.
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