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 26, 1964
The previous week it was announced that our gross national product had reached $608 1/2 billion in the first quarter of this year, after the longest period of uninterrupted prosperity in the peacetime history of America.
Apr 26, 1964
So, as goes the money problem, so goes the Nation in a great many respects.
Apr 26, 1964
To you who have given so freely and so fully to your Nation's welfare, your President commends you and salutes you and thanks you.
Apr 26, 1964
Every time you criticize a government official, you weaken the unity of our country.
Apr 26, 1964
I have been rejecting the political advice of experts for 32 years that I have been in this game.
Apr 23, 1964
Won't it be a great blessing, won't it be a great achievement, won't it be a great satisfaction for you Governors and the rest of you here tonight to pass on to your children to know that young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., has been with us…
Apr 23, 1964
We are going to try to refuse to take 'no' for an answer and get in here and do something ourselves about it.
Apr 23, 1964
It is my hope that in a matter of days, I can send a message to the Congress in connection with the work that we have done today and in connection with the work of this commission.
Apr 23, 1964
I am sure that all of you already understand my very strong conviction, to which Lady Bird has referred, that we must make more use of the talents of women in government if we expect to have better government.
Apr 23, 1964
I salute not only Mr. McDonald, Senator Clark, Senator Scott, Miss Genevieve Blatt, but all of your delegation and all of the civic-minded people of Pennsylvania.
Apr 23, 1964
Yes, I remember the day the Bonus Army was driven down the streets to the mud flats of Anacostia.
Apr 23, 1964
I am here to see what the federal Government can do to work with you to help us all improve the lot of our fellow Americans.
Apr 23, 1964
We are not going to be satisfied until we have an opportunity for education of all of our children, and when our people have the equality of jobs and the equality of opportunity.
Apr 23, 1964
We are not going to be satisfied until we have medical care for our aged.
Apr 23, 1964
So we want to ask all of you good people to try to support our program and let's have an administration of the people, by the people, for the people, giving the greatest good to the greatest number all the time.
Apr 23, 1964
We are not going to be satisfied in this country until we have a home for every family.
Apr 23, 1964
My hope and my aim in life is to keep that road open and to make it wide and make it smoother, and make it straighter for all Americans.
Apr 23, 1964
It is a source of pride and gratification to me in doing the kind of work here at home that made America the great and strong and good Nation that it has been and that we want it to be for our children.
Apr 23, 1964
We in the Johnson administration, we hope with the support of Johnson County, have already declared war on poverty in all of its forms, in all of its causes, and we intend to drive it underground and win that war with your help.
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