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.
We are ready to stop fighting tonight if they are ready to stop fighting.
The problem of all the world is a problem of what are we going to do about the developing nations.
The more that Western Europe acts together the more effectively we and other countries can work together.
Because of your courage, and your steadfastness, freedom today endures on this earth.
Those who negotiated at Geneva drove a hard bargain, but we believe it was a fair bargain.
If we can do it in these four or five, we have a land of opportunity out there where we can do it in others.
To retreat from it would, I think, set a chain reaction of counter-protection and retaliation that would put in jeopardy our ability to work together and to prosper together.
The large enterprises that really shape history take a great deal of time and much hard work.
May God bless you and your loved ones is the wish of your President at this Christmas season.
It is the conviction that peace will come, and will permit us to give our lives completely to building, instead of giving our lives to destroying.
This is an intolerable condition in the 20th century in a modern nation that prides itself on reputed leadership of the world.
The day before yesterday, I went to a little town near my home where we had a junior college just established.
I said, 'Where are your 150?' They said, 'They are out there with 1,850 more.'





