We have no time for callousness on contempt, either in the policies of our Nation or in the hearts of our leaders.
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.
It is a course of peace, it is a course of understanding, is a course of living by the Golden Rule doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Americans are faced with a concerted bid for power by factions which oppose all that both parties have supported.
Yes, to you good members of this honorable and responsible union there is work for you to do, for us to do--work to build this good society better, work to make this strong country the foundation of a great and a compassionate civilization.
They may talk of changing the world, but what they mean to change is America first.
Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.
So long as I am President, I intend to honor the mandate of the Constitution that I am sworn to uphold.
I call upon you, here and now, to begin this hour to start fighting in order to save it.
In 1914 the first old-age pension was established in a State where character has not been collectivized by compassion - the great State of Arizona.