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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.
I request that leaders of business groups, labor unions, women's clubs, and civic associations, and all consumers join, along with farm families and other rural people, in this observance, as evidence of the strong ties that bind urban and…
Education is basic to every facet of our individual lives and of the life of our Nation.
I do hereby designate the week of November 20 through November 26, 1964, as National Farm-City Week;
We must avoid complacency and we must never be quite satisfied with our educational institutions, no matter how good they may be.
Nothing makes a house happier than young people--and this house is a very happy home right now with all of you here on our lawn.
We live together today in 50 States as one people--one people, united and indivisible.
I don't know what impressions you may have brought here--or what impressions you may be taking away now.
Well, I am the father of Lynda and Luci Johnson--and I am known as the man who is the White House dogs' best friend.
People in other countries sometimes forget what we in America can never forget: that America has been built by sons and daughters of every continent and every country.
America is young--as you are young--with its future before it, as your future is before you.
So America is not an old, contented, complacent land--ready to stand still.
I think it is important to the future of our economy and to our relations with the other nations in the world.
I think the American people are perfectly careful and prudent people and they can very well judge those matters themselves.
I would hope that no other nation would think that we are a nation of warmongers and that we have any evil designs on conquest or domination.
I will be very happy for Mr. McCone, the Director of CIA, to brief him at any time that he cares to be briefed.
I EXTEND, through you, to the representatives of the nations and peoples of Africa gathered in Cairo, the friendly greetings of the Government and people of the United States of America.
Africa through the OAU has shown its capacity to deal through peaceful means with African problems, including such disputes as have arisen among its members.
I and the people of the United States extend to this Organization our best wishes for continued progress toward your high aims.
The Water Resources Research Act of 1964, which I have approved today, fills a vital need...it will create local centers of water research. It will enlist the intellectual power of universities and research institutes in a nationwide…
The Federal Government has a special responsibility to conduct its affairs with an enlightened concern for the critical part it now plays in the utilization of the Nation's manpower.
Your report deals with issues which are important in carrying out this Nation's commitment to deploy science and technology boldly and effectively in the interest of the Nation's welfare.
They stand with us, and our cause is the cause of free men everywhere.
We have come here this morning to pay honor to an outstanding officer and his outstanding career of honorable and faithful service to our country and to the cause of freedom in the world.
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