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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

For the first time in the history of the United States there was no boundary dispute with Great Britain.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

This sets a good example for all of us, particularly those who continue to insist that we cannot achieve more program results and maintain our pressure on reducing costs at the same time.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

The food we buy, the food we eat, has been under Federal safety standards since way back before I was born--1906.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

We are going to ask every State to participate in safety programs and to conform to uniform driver and pedestrian safety performance standards.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

Finally, I am happy to announce today that one of the Nation's leading traffic safety experts has responded to my call for help.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

I am especially proud at this moment to sign these bills which I believe promise, in the years to come, to cure the highway disease: to end the years of horror and to give us, instead, years of hope.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

Through the Highway Safety Act, we are going to find out more about highway disease--and we are going to find out how to cure it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1966

Please pass on to your associates in the Department and, in particular, to the Coast Guard, my commendation and appreciation for these achievements.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

We love peace, we want peace, we are willing to do anything we can to achieve peace, but it is not a one-way street.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

The world knows and appreciates Burma's dedication to peace and to the right of all nations to decide their own destinies.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

Thus shall we raise the hopes and enrich the lives of people throughout the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

Several million Americans ought to be, and I think will be, very grateful to this 89th Congress for this legislation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

They have affirmed the right of every man to get to his job in a reasonable time, at a reasonable cost.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

We will not be providing a bonus to someone to build something we don't want built.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1966

Both our countries emerged from a colonial past and treasure independence all the more for that.

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