After we get an hors d'oeuvre and get some planes, and get me there in time for 9:15.
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.
The legislation that we are acting upon this morning involves the very finest teamwork between the executive branch and the Congress.
My reason for going up there is to make an announcement which I expect I will make sometime between 9 and 10 o'clock.
I believe that this law represents still another major step in this Nation's efforts to achieve full use of the force of the atom for peaceful purposes to the benefit of all mankind.
That is our objective and our prayer, and all of our efforts will be directed along those lines.
I will point out what I have considered, who I have talked to, the factors that have entered into it, and then I will make my suggestion.
By any measure, this legislation demonstrates the highest order of responsibility within our system.
The Federal Government has properly been concerned, through your Committee, with the preparation of this program.
I want you to know, and I want the world to know, that all of our plans and all of our work now going on will keep it that way.
This is another new page in the outstanding record of accomplishments the 88th Congress is writing.
It is important for us all to understand that these attacks at sea are only part of a basic pattern of aggression which had already shown itself against the people and Government of South Viet-Nam and the people and the Government of Laos.
There has been discontent and there has been dissatisfaction, but it seems to me that these last 7 days deserve very special consideration in contemplation of every thinking citizen.
This has been a very gratifying and a very satisfying day in this house of the American people.
In highest tribute to this remarkable citizen and humanitarian, I urge the youth of America to emulate the patriotism, integrity, and high ideals that have marked his career.
This is the work that will fulfill the dreams of those who have chosen to come and live in our land--and contribute their great talents to the success of the American ideal.





