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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.

Quotes by year · 196319698,890 total · peak 1966 (3339)
1963: 81 quotes1964: 2,112 quotes1965: 1,508 quotes1966: 3,339 quotes1967: 1,095 quotes1968: 750 quotes1969: 5 quotes
Feb 26, 1967

I recommend that the Congress allow the reorganization plan to become effective.

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Feb 26, 1967

It is not our purpose or our belief that this is what is happening.

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Feb 26, 1967

Our continued insistence on treating drug addicts, once apprehended, as criminals is neither humane nor effective.

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Feb 26, 1967

By virtue of my authority under Section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended, I issued on January 5, 1967 Executive Order No. 11322 relating to trade and other transactions involving Southern Rhodesia.

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Feb 26, 1967

Ambassador Goldberg, I think, had intended to visit Burma originally.

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Feb 26, 1967

I am submitting this report to the Congress under Section 4 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended.

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Feb 26, 1967

The task is difficult and success will take time. We must--and we will--succeed.

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Feb 26, 1967

It is part of our larger effort to streamline the Government, to make its operations as efficient as possible, and to enable it to provide better service to the citizens and businessmen of this country.

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Feb 26, 1967

It will be necessary for us to do some more of it as we go along.

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Feb 26, 1967

A civilized community in the Twentieth Century should not permit a situation such as this to exist.

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Feb 26, 1967

No one has ever expected, except those who want us to stop it, that bombing would stop infiltration.

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Feb 20, 1967

Our deepest obligation to ourselves and to our children is to bring nuclear weapons under control.

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Feb 20, 1967

As I pointed out to the Congress in my State of the Union Message, the world is 'in the midst of a great transition, a transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership; from the harsh spirit of the cold war to the hopeful…

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Feb 20, 1967

The United States is prepared to make available nuclear explosive services for peaceful purposes on a nondiscriminatory basis under appropriate international safeguards.

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