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.
Nov 8, 1967
We are grateful for the endurance of our government for one hundred and eighty years.
Nov 8, 1967
I came to New York to tell you and to tell the country tonight that we can meet our commitments, and we can keep our word at home and abroad--and we will.
Nov 8, 1967
Judge our people, then, Your Highness, with your heart, and if you do, I think you will find friends here.
Nov 8, 1967
In a similar spirit I ask my fellow citizens to join their thankfulness with penitence and humility.
Nov 8, 1967
George Meany has been busy remaking American history since his young manhood.
Nov 8, 1967
Recognizing the trials we have endured and are enduring, I have turned to the Thanksgiving Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
Nov 8, 1967
If the war in Laos is forgotten by the press at large, it nonetheless continues to ravage my country.
Nov 8, 1967
We know that failure in the Middle East can condemn the children of that region to endless--and to senseless--warfare.
Nov 8, 1967
When one has heard, one should then see; and when one has seen, one should judge with his own heart.
Nov 8, 1967
I find and determine that provision should be made to assist the development of petrochemical facilities in the Virgin Islands without impairment of the objectives of Proclamation 3279, as amended.
Nov 8, 1967
If you four fellows would get out of the way, the other six will go over for a touchdown.
Nov 7, 1967
So here today in the East Room in the White House we will end the last vestige of discrimination--I hope--in our Armed Forces.
Nov 7, 1967
Progress is being made and I believe these programs will help us overcome the dreaded killer diseases--heart, cancer and stroke.
Nov 7, 1967
There is no reason why we should not someday have a female Chief of Staff or even a female Commander in Chief.
Nov 7, 1967
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10807 of March 13, 1959, entitled 'Federal Council for Science and Technology,' be, and it is hereby, amended by substituting…
Nov 7, 1967
At long last we are going to give the dedicated women of our Armed Forces the equal treatment and the equal opportunity that they should have had from the very beginning.
Nov 7, 1967
We have come here this morning to strike another blow for women's rights.
Nov 7, 1967
As Dr. Samuel Johnson once observed, 'Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.'
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