Lyndon Johnson
The Public Record
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.
These days, it is difficult for me to read some of the English newspapers as well.
We can live with each other if we try and we can build greatness here as we have in the last 30 years.
You were very wise, I think, in scrapping the old title--the Grand Old Party.
From now on, all of our Federal juries in this country will be, in the language of the law, 'selected at random from a fair cross section of the community.'
So let us continue in that spirit, allowing no doubts of today to limit the promise of what we can achieve tomorrow.
Mr. President, I do want to offer you my congratulations this evening--congratulations on your shrewd political sense.
More than 100 years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
It advances the civil rights of those who still reach for their full, and what we believe their proper, place in our society.
Too often the jury lists have tended to exclude citizens who were poor or who were not 'in' or who may have lacked charisma or may have been members of a minority group.
I am hopeful that the Civil Rights Act--which we have passed through a body that has been very difficult, in my experience, to pass civil rights bills through, in past years--can pass the House of Representatives; and we will finally put…
We are drawing closer, I think, ever closer to the fulfillment of a promise that this Nation made to ourselves and to the world many, many years ago.
I am shocked to even think that the boys I put on the plane at the 82d Airborne--most of whom were Negro boys going back to Vietnam the second time to protect that flag and to preserve our freedom--that they can't live near the base where…
Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a toast to our faithful friends, the people of Liberia, President Tubman, and his gracious lady, who honors us with her presence.
We must make every effort to insure stable prices in order to meet foreign competition at home and abroad.
The United States dollar is, at present, the cornerstone of that system.
We have come here today to infuse some new strength into our democratic system of government.
The measures we have undertaken will insure the continued strength of the dollar.
We must protect every citizen of this land in the exercise of his civil rights.





