Jan 20, 1964
Once the tax bill becomes fully effective in calendar year 1965, the entire schedule of individual income tax rates will fall from the present range of 20% to 91% to a range of 14% to 70%.
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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Jan 20, 1964
I will shortly send to the Congress a special message conveying my recommendations for the attack on poverty.
Jan 20, 1964
I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present circumstances, from an expansion of the private sector rather than the public sector.
Jan 20, 1964
Failure to take forward steps only insures that welfare aid will remain essentially a dole.
Jan 20, 1964
We face in extending the advancing national prosperity to those geographical areas in the country which have been most sharply hit by economic change.
Jan 20, 1964
It calls for a reduction from the preceding year in total administrative budget expenditures.
Jan 20, 1964
I deeply regret his retirement from the service for he is one of an uncommon breed whose numbers are too small and whose duplication is too rare.
Jan 20, 1964
Agreement on the control and the reduction and the ultimate abolition of weapons and war is not impossible as it seemed for so many years.
Jan 20, 1964
This will enable us to find those boys at age 18, rather than at age 23, or 24, who are deficient mentally or physically and to offer them remedial programs.
Jan 20, 1964
If we have the genius to create these terrible weapons of destruction, then, certainly, we have the genius to create the means of their destruction.
Jan 20, 1964
The success of this procedure is of great importance, for these rejected today boys are often tomorrow's unemployed.
Jan 20, 1964
I would also appreciate any appropriate recommendations for Government action.
Jan 20, 1964
The reduction in expenditures will be achieved despite a steady growth in the workload of nearly every civilian agency of Government.
Jan 20, 1964
The District of Columbia, as the Capital of our Nation, should symbolize our civic ideals.
Jan 20, 1964
I don't think that anyone knows this, except perhaps Secretary McNamara and his family, but when my beloved predecessor was thinking of this occasion, he was reminded that General Shoup had an aversion to receiving medals.
Jan 20, 1964
You can be real proud of the Defense Department and all the men who serve that flag today.
Jan 20, 1964
He wanted to be strong enough to prevent a war and wise enough to avoid one.
Jan 19, 1964
You have demonstrated that you could find waste and where you could find it eliminate it.
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