Apr 20, 1964
The United States will enter into no ultimate agreement unless progress is registered toward trade liberalization on the products of our farms as well as our factories.
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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Apr 20, 1964
They know now that depression and despair are not the ordained lot of man.
Apr 20, 1964
We must help developing countries because our own welfare demands it.
Apr 20, 1964
It is all very well for us to make lofty statements about the ideals of our democratic society, but such statements have very little meaning unless they are backed up in actual practice.
Apr 20, 1964
I hope that our friends in other lands will neither underestimate or undervalue the strength of American support for success of the trade negotiations that we have entered.
Apr 20, 1964
I ask myself, 'What did we do today that we can point to for generations to come, to say that we laid the foundation for a better and more peaceful and more prosperous world?'
Apr 19, 1964
Ladies and gentlemen, one of the most pleasant moments in the life of a President is to be present and to help officiate at the swearing in of an able and competent and dedicated American who has agreed to go to work for the Government.
Apr 19, 1964
The Nation is the beneficiary today of a good man and a great talent who places his skills and his courage at the disposal of his fellow countrymen.
Apr 19, 1964
Secretary Rusk has just made a very interesting and informative report on his meeting with SEATO and with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Ambassador Lodge in Saigon.
Apr 19, 1964
I WANT to extend my warm greetings and those of Mrs. Johnson to the Daughters of the American Revolution on the occasion of your 73d Continental Congress.
Apr 19, 1964
It is with this belief that I challenge the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution to even greater service to your fellow Americans.
Apr 19, 1964
Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II is going to be our Director of Space Medicine for the Manned Space flight in NASA.
Apr 16, 1964
I am the President of the United States, the only President you will have, God willing, until January of next year.
Apr 16, 1964
We are trying to pass a good food stamp plan in the Congress, a medical aid plan in the Congress, a pay bill that will not make it necessary for an employee who stays here to either resign or to steal, but one that will permit him to earn…
Apr 16, 1964
It has been wonderful to have you leaders of our country and the great molders of our thought to come here and give me this opportunity to tell you what is in my heart.
Apr 16, 1964
Every Tuesday I meet with Senator Mansfield and get his recommendations and suggestions.
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