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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1966

I think it is very evident that some of these candidates to whom you refer differ with certain of my policies that deal with equal rights and equal treatment for all of our citizens.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1966

I would not want to get your hopes up and have you disappointed because we didn't achieve everything that I would like to see achieved.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1966

I would be looking to them 'for initiative in proposal, energy in action, and frankness in advice.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1966

No consideration has been given at this time to any such program or any such visit.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· 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.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 4, 1966

I hope that this beautiful stamp will serve as a constant reminder for all of us to do just that.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· 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.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 1966

Nick Katzenbach invoked the police power in the struggle for freedom for all Americans.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· 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.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 2, 1966

Thus we cannot escape the intimate connection between our domestic and our foreign policy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· 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.

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