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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

I want to repeat for the benefit of the press--if you weren't listening yesterday or today I want you to listen now--at least 10 percent.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

I didn't come out here to see you this afternoon because I was running for anything this year.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

To each of you, whether you are at the bottom of the grade or at the top of the list, I want to say that your President appreciates the job that you have done and wants to publicly commend you for it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

And that is going to pay us very rich dividends down the road in an educated electorate in this country.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

One of her verses--about a bureaucrat-ends with these words:'The bureaucrat is seldom seen Without a pen-or with a dream.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

I am delighted to be here in Baltimore and to see on the platform a good many of my old and trusted friends.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

I want to thank you in advance for the great majority you are going to give Frank O'Connor, your Democratic gubernatorial candidate, this year.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

You, here at the Social Security Administration, are very central to that mission.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

Today, social security and Medicare stand as two of the most historic programs ever enacted by any Congress.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1966

This was just one more situation that I saw when I was a very young man, and that I have been trying to do something about, and have determined to do something about ever since

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1966

On behalf of all the children of America we say--thank you, and the children say thank you, too

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 10, 1966

I am today instructing the Secretary of Agriculture to set this target as his goal

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