Lyndon Johnson

I think that your report can move us much closer to our national goal, which is good health care for every citizen, high quality and efficient health care.

Everett Dirksen is the only column I haven't complained about all year long.

It was unthinkable that one could oppose but not betray.

That is a most revolutionary concept in the history of man.

Work for the future.

I do want you to know that you have the gratitude and the appreciation of your President.

I am delighted to be here for several reasons.

I do not need to remind you of my intense interest in health services, in health care, and in health programs in this country.

It provides for an across-the-board increase of 15 percent to the social security beneficiaries.

The problem is to stand firmly with the administration on a foundation of common idealism, while dissenting from those measures which do not fulfill these ideals.

We Americans naturally take our institutions for granted.

We know that our young people get more schooling than any other young people in all the world.

So tonight, in America and in other free nations, the opposition doesn't exist on tolerance.

We have seen success in America beyond all of our wildest dreams.

Government is not big enough to solve the problem of health care.

But I have had a terrible time getting him cleared with the Civil Service Commission which insists that he stop making recordings to prevent conflict of interest.

But we have not yet seen that we can keep our air and our water pure and healthy while we do it.

We see a nation of unimagined wealth and increasing opportunity for most of our people.

If Senator Dirksen has established his reputation for fulfilling the duties of partisanship, he has also quite avoided the temptations of irresponsibility.

We know we are going to be an urban people for a long time to come.

To an unparalleled degree, I think we have been succeeding in that objective.

I think all Americans should appreciate the problems of the leader of the opposition--as well as the temptations.

We know that we can, if we will, provide decent housing for all American families, and thus transform our cities.

But only in America could a Senator be the guest of honor at a cloak-and-dagger dinner.

So those are just a few of the challenges that will confront us as we go from 200 million Americans to 300 million Americans-as we begin our third century of life in this land.