Apr 25, 1967
Why can't we have a political settlement? Why can't we understand our fellow human beings? Why can't we negotiate a solution? Why do men have to die?
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 25, 1967
I want to negotiate. I want a political solution. I want--more than any human being in all the world--to see the killing stopped.
Apr 25, 1967
Science is so powerful as a force for change in the world that scientists must play a most important and an increasing role in the international affairs of the world.
Apr 25, 1967
It is clear from our discussions that the friendship that has existed and the close relationship that has existed between our two countries for more than the past two decades will be continued.
Apr 25, 1967
They gave us the nuclear bomb--but they also started us on the course of peaceful nuclear power.
Apr 25, 1967
We have not made any hard and fast decisions today, although we have explored many of the interests of our respective people.
Apr 25, 1967
We are only now beginning to truly realize the impact which the physical sciences hold for the work of peace in the world.
Apr 25, 1967
We want, more than anything else, peace in the world and prosperity for all of its peoples.
Apr 25, 1967
The transistor radio, the microwave communication links, television, and atomic energy are based on knowledge which had not even been discovered when you were children.
Apr 25, 1967
When the history of our times is written the names of scientists such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Fermi and many others will figure very prominently among those who helped not only to defend this Nation and preserve it, but to…
Apr 25, 1967
Maybe somehow, some way, sometime there will be somebody willing to sit down at the table and talk instead of kill, discuss instead of fight, reason instead of murder.
Apr 25, 1967
It is astonishing to observe the great progress that has been made since I first came here.
Apr 25, 1967
And I ask myself that every morning and I reflect on it every evening.
Apr 25, 1967
And when they do, I will be the first one at that table--wherever it is.
Apr 25, 1967
I want--more than any human being in all the world--to see the killing stopped.
Apr 25, 1967
I commend you for the role that you have played in the development of physics in this country.
Apr 25, 1967
The new ultraminiature devices which guide our spaceships and are giving us new medical tools are all the products of the last 10 years.
Apr 25, 1967
The country will need the help of scientists, including a large and strong contingent of physicists, if we are ever to be able to deal effectively with the central problems of the present and the future, to deal with the problems of peace…
Apr 25, 1967
I need your help and your support in the trials and tribulations that go with the leadership that is incumbent upon this great land of ours.
Apr 25, 1967
The whole world now looks to science to help it meet its growing need--and that need is great for food, for better health, and for a better life.
Apr 23, 1967
Like three American astronauts who lost their lives recently, this distinguished space pioneer died in the cause of science and in the eternal spirit of human adventure.
Apr 23, 1967
We would of course warmly welcome you but if you can't come, we will thoroughly understand in the light of your own important problems in the State.
Apr 23, 1967
THE DEATH of Vladimir Komarov is a tragedy in which all nations share.
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