Sep 15, 1964
Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Premier, I want to thank you for your generous welcome.
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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Sep 15, 1964
My country is grateful for the spacious spirit with which this generous design was conceived and with the way it was carried out, even down to the last quarter.
Sep 15, 1964
We are at once neighbors and friends, and partners and allies, and I am very glad my first stop is Vancouver.
Sep 15, 1964
We have never rattled our rockets or come carelessly to the edge of war.
Sep 15, 1964
Those of us who seek peace know that only wisdom and patience, and the fortitude of long effort, can bring us near to that goal.
Sep 15, 1964
This Texan hopes that you still feel that freedom, for we welcome the comments and the counsel which spring, as yours do, from friendship and understanding.
Sep 15, 1964
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
Sep 15, 1964
But I also tell you that in the years to come my country will spare no effort to achieve a lasting peace for all of us.
Sep 15, 1964
I will say, though, when I go home, that Texas reminds me of Vancouver.
Sep 14, 1964
I feel, as I know you feel, that I want only the best in the world for our great Nation and for our people.
Sep 14, 1964
I trust when all is said and done, that America will not only be the home of the free and the land of the brave, but will be the nation that is first in space, due primarily to what you people are doing here.
Sep 14, 1964
I invite all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Sep 14, 1964
I ask those great patriotic organizations bearing von Steuben's name or the name of other patriots of his nationality to stress in their celebrations the debt of gratitude which all Americans owe our Founding Fathers for the democratic…
Sep 14, 1964
Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America do hereby designate September 17, 1964 as von Steuben Day.
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