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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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This should be a helpful step in improving the overall small business program.
I know how very hard you have worked to improve small business programs over the past several years.
I hope, therefore, you will accept the challenge and make the coming fiscal year the best yet for small business in terms of proportionate share in dollar awards.
A prosperous small business community means a stronger national economy.
Today we are pouring at least 130 million tons of poison into the air each year.
Don't we really risk our own damnation every day by destroying the air that gives us life?
The Republicans have been known to win elections, and my friend Senator Dirksen has been working very hard to become Majority Leader of the United States Senate.
We know that we can produce the steel and the cars and the chemicals to make us a mighty powerful and wealthy nation.
So I came here tonight to echo this combination of both personal esteem and institutional respect.
And I want all of you to know, too, that I have known that awful feeling that comes when the votes are counted in the United States Senate and there is Ev smiling that cherubic smile.
I wish I could, but I cannot tell you this morning that we are going to be able to meet successfully all of these challenges.
As it happens, a few weeks ago I selected a commission to do a little study to find out actually who that lucky baby was.
But we have not yet seen whether mass education in America can really be quality education, too.
I say this in the full knowledge that he has in the past felt that a number of my proposals were less than divinely inspired--a habit that I am afraid he will retain no matter how many nice things I might say about him here tonight.
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