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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

In this way those of you in the Peace Corps have carried forward the real revolution of our day and time, the revolution of peaceful change.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

The taxes you collect are going to be used to rebuild the cities of America in a manner in which we can take great pride.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

The first session of this Congress has liberated our citizens from the haunting fear of an inability to meet the cost of medical care in their later years.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

It was an act of faith on the part of that great President who established the Peace Corps by Executive order 5 years ago today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

A nation's greatness is measured by its concern for the health and welfare of its people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

It has helped, at many times and in many places, to soften the harshness of man to his fellow man.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

But let them not suppose that our desire for peace springs either from weakness or from hesitation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

Today we can set ambitious goals for the future:--full education for every citizen to the limits of his capacity to absorb it;--good health for every citizen to the limits of our country's capacity to provide it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

You have my pledge that the Internal Revenue Service, as long as I am President, is going to be a blue ribbon organization.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

There was a time not many years ago when a man seriously injured had very little chance of survival.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

I am one man who is always glad to see the tax collectors; at least, I am today in my official capacity.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 28, 1966

By insisting upon the political dignity of man, it has welcomed 63 nations to take their places alongside the 51 original members.

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