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

This, I think, is the Labor Day that should be the happiest for the working people of this country since Labor Day was first promulgated in the administration of Grover Cleveland

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

So long as I am in your office of Presidency, I am going to make every effort I know how to insure and guarantee the greatest possible progress in the field of health at the lowest possible cost to the individual.

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

The United States welcomes any effort that will persuade the men in Hanoi that this is the right path for them and for all humanity.

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

So it is up to us and other free men to convince those who seize hunger, sickness, and poverty as an excuse for aggression; who believe that might makes right--those Communists who think that they can invade their neighbor and gobble up…

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

It is wonderful to be in your great city and in this wonderful Montgomery County Fair.

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

I am asking a group of Governors and mayors to meet and study ways in which city, State, and Federal Governments can cooperate in developing a manpower service program that could work at every level of our society.

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

I am deeply honored by the fine introduction that your eminent and capable Representative in Congress, Congressman Rodney Love, gave me.

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

I said way back early in my political life that I thought every 'person had a great reward if he had a chance to serve his fellow man.

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

I am so happy that I could be here this morning to honor the memory of Pat McNamara.

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

Tonight we have an immigration law that no longer asks a man, 'Where do you come from?','It asks, 'What can you do?'

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