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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

It is not enough for our young people merely to prepare for tomorrow's life. They must be living life--and they must be making it better for all men--now.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

Let us take all necessary steps to provide the handicapped with a wide range of meaningful opportunities and a life of dignity.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

The bill I am today submitting would restore the traditional relationship by raising the combat pay tax exemption for officers to $500 per month.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

The cry for justice grows louder and clearer and more insistent every day. That cry will not die--and we will not deny it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

We believe that man has the means to solve all of his problems. What he needs is the will.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

We believe that nothing is impossible for a free people who keep their determination, who keep their devotion, and who keep their spirit.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

I am today asking the Congress to correct a tax inequity that exists among our fighting men in Viet Nam.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 17, 1966

Our country has never had as many employed, eating more, wearing more, doing better, more prosperous, generally a happier progressive nation with goals and objectives and with programs in their reach, and with jobs to be done and people…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 16, 1966

Americans have just cause to celebrate the progress that has been made in highway transportation in this Nation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 16, 1966

Without careful planning, more and better highways between our cities only serve to increase traffic congestion within the cities themselves.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 16, 1966

The health of this hemisphere is the business of the house in which we have assembled this morning to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Alliance for Progress.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 16, 1966

The daily working partnership they have achieved is a remarkable example of creative Federalism.

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