May 5, 1964
I WANT to tell you how pleased we are that you could come here to the White House and receive this great honor.
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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May 5, 1964
It is true that a hundred years ago this year a great American President freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free America of its bigotry, and he did not free us from the prejudice of color.
May 5, 1964
We all read of the young girl who was being attacked and stabbed to death while some 30 people watched in 'apathy.
May 5, 1964
So your President congratulates you and says thanks to you on behalf of a grateful Nation.
May 4, 1964
Each must be free to seek its own destiny in its own way, and that is what we believe for every American in this country; and that is what we believe for every country in this world.
May 4, 1964
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to welcome you here as the honored guests of the American people, to the house which is their home.
May 4, 1964
But this effort and other efforts to find the cause and the cure of multiple sclerosis take a great deal of talent and a lot of money.
May 4, 1964
I hope that what you have learned here will help you advance the progress of your own people, for this is no time for men of knowledge and learning to be above the battle, to stand aloof from the fight for a better world.
May 4, 1964
For multiple sclerosis is a crippler and we cannot rest in this country until we have conquered it.
May 4, 1964
We know definitely where democracy is not, as we do where the railroad station is not, or where the post office is not.
May 3, 1964
We are gratified with the progress our economy is making, but we are not satisfied.
May 3, 1964
Any increase which does cause or contribute to inflation will not benefit labor.
May 3, 1964
We need civil rights legislation to insure that all Americans are treated equally.
May 3, 1964
No challenge is greater on our horizon than preserving and raising higher the standards of public education.
May 3, 1964
We have talked a great deal about full employment in America, but we have done too little to achieve it.
May 3, 1964
The scientific and engineering information acquired as a result of this activity should be made available to assist the efforts of the Federal Reconstruction and Development Planning Commission.
May 3, 1964
We need a housing program that will provide a decent home for every American family.
May 3, 1964
It is important we learn as many lessons as possible from the disastrous Alaskan earthquake.
May 3, 1964
To drain shameful backwaters of poverty and concentrated unemployment, we must press our war on poverty forward to total victory.
May 3, 1964
We need a successful war on poverty to lift 9 million American families to full membership in our society.
May 1, 1964
We should never relax our efforts to give the American people a dollar's worth of value for a dollar spent.
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