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.
Oct 5, 1966
We carefully evaluated the requests and decided it would be in the best interests of our own people, as well as the people of Indonesia, to extend the assistance we did.
Oct 5, 1966
No consideration has been given at this time to any such program or any such visit.
Oct 4, 1966
I hope that this beautiful stamp will serve as a constant reminder for all of us to do just that.
Oct 4, 1966
I think there should be some time in every day of every life to watch the sunset, or to smell the flowers, or to listen to the birds while they sing.
Oct 2, 1966
The measure of our own success will be the extent to which we free our people to realize what their imagination and energy can achieve.
Oct 2, 1966
We Americans do not believe in moral double-bookkeeping--and so today we stand before the world asking only that others employ a similar, single standard of evaluation.
Oct 2, 1966
As Under Secretary of State our country is gaining a talented, creative administrator who is not really changing jobs, but merely rechanneling his creativity.
Oct 2, 1966
We are the first generation to know with certainty that life will be different for our children, and even for ourselves, in a few years' time.
Oct 2, 1966
When we claim to be sustaining the cause of freedom in the world, we are judged--and I think rightly so--in terms of our commitment to liberty and justice here at home.
Oct 2, 1966
By such a standard, the appointment of Nicholas Katzenbach as the Under Secretary of State demonstrates that what we are at home demonstrates what we are abroad.
Oct 2, 1966
Nick Katzenbach invoked the police power in the struggle for freedom for all Americans.
Oct 2, 1966
A nation, like an individual, must earn the right to have its professions of idealism taken seriously.
Oct 2, 1966
A nation is not great simply because it is large or wealthy or powerful.
Oct 2, 1966
We and our allies this afternoon--with equal reluctance--are employing police power in Vietnam.
Oct 2, 1966
Both President Kennedy and I have fearfully overworked Nick Katzenbach.
Oct 2, 1966
Power was used--with somber reluctance--in defense of the rule of law.
Oct 2, 1966
What we accomplish around the world will be shaped in large part by what we are and what we become at home.
Oct 2, 1966
Thus we cannot escape the intimate connection between our domestic and our foreign policy.
Oct 2, 1966
The United States reaffirms its adherence to the rule of law in the world, as well as in the Nation.
Oct 2, 1966
I am delighted to see so many friends and admirers of our new Under Secretary of State here in the White House with us this afternoon.
Oct 2, 1966
It reaffirms its quest for that creativity in the international arena which will make the United Nations the instrument of world order, of world peace, and of world justice.
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