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

We will lay on the table our plans to withdraw if they will lay on the table their plans to cease their aggression.

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

It is now time to set forth to the Congress and the American people the additional steps we consider necessary to assure the continuing health and strength of our economy.

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

We must meet these new problems without jeopardizing past gains or present performance.

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

Our overburdened and underfinanced mass transportation systems were nearing paralysis.

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

I urge the Federal Reserve Board, in executing its policy of monetary restraint, and our large commercial banks to cooperate with the President and the Congress to lower interest rates and to ease the inequitable burden of tight money.

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

Yet, until 1964, the Federal Government did little or nothing to help the urban commuter.

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

In the past 12 months, commercial and industrial construction was 27% higher than during the previous year.

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

No other country in the world allowed its passenger rail service in urban areas to deteriorate as badly as we did--and we are the richest, most powerful, and most technically advanced nation on earth!

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

Prudent economic policy requires timely well-considered action in the national interest.

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