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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

Nothing can sap the prosperity that our people enjoy tonight faster than runaway price increases.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

I believe there can be no more appropriate commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act than the recognition you are according Dr. Harvey W. Wiley today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

No industry has more consumers of goods and services than the great basic industry of agriculture.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

If you vote Republican and by chance you should win, you won't have to worry very long about high prices--or high wages.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

In turn, we in the Executive Branch are moving ahead to protect and improve the health of this Nation's people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

Food For Peace moved into its second decade continuing food aid programs that had proved so beneficial in the past.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

If the strong and the wealthy turn from the needs of the weak and the poor, frustration is sure to be followed by force.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

The 1906 Act was an important first step in the effort to assure American families that the food they bought and the medicines they used were wholesome and safe.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

Today, few agencies of Government have as vital a concern with the welfare of every American family as does the FDA.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

It is not easy to measure the achievements of a program with such multiple objectives as Food For Peace.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 29, 1966

The United States in 1965 shipped $1.4 billion of food and fiber overseas under our Food For Peace program.

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