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.
Apr 28, 1964
It is your job as prophets in our time to direct the immense power of religion in shaping the conduct and the thoughts of men toward their brothers in a manner consistent with compassion and love.
Apr 28, 1964
This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because justice and morality demand it.
Apr 28, 1964
A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry.
Apr 28, 1964
Today, again the problem of racial wrongs and racial hatreds is the central moral problem of this Republic.
Apr 27, 1964
We must quit thinking of it just as a force for destruction, or as an instrument for war.
Apr 26, 1964
All of those people would become taxpayers having deducts made to their checks instead of taxeaters from the deducts from your checks.
Apr 26, 1964
Discrimination costs us $15 billion due to wasted and underused manpower.
Apr 26, 1964
Let this be said: That the real war to end all wars must be the war to eliminate poverty.
Apr 26, 1964
Until education is unaware of race, until employment is blind to color, emancipation will be a proclamation, but it will not be a fact.
Apr 26, 1964
Each year for the last 3 years, with the growing population, with new demands and new needs upon us, our local and our State budgets have materially increased over the country.
Apr 26, 1964
There is one good thing about lightning hitting your wife's plane--it put her back to riding with me again!
Apr 26, 1964
We are being taught some useful skills, and it is costing us $31 a week for them to do it, so they can live.
Apr 26, 1964
I told a group that I met with the other evening at the Gridiron Club that in the light of developments recently I am not sure whether you are safer being a guest of the press or having the press as your guests!
Apr 26, 1964
If a peaceful change of these conditions is impossible, a violent change is inevitable.
Apr 26, 1964
We are determined that no nation shall ever exceed us in preparedness, and none shall ever excel us in the pursuit of honorable peace, for we shall keep both our reason and our readiness at all times.
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