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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1965

Unless we seize the opportunities available now, the fears some have of a nightmare society could materialize.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1965

So the enactment of this legislation, and so many other measures of this Congress, represents the unified determination of this generation to preserve the best of the past by preparing to make the future better still.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1965

The bill I am about to sign today represents a victory for the second school of thought.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 7, 1965

On an average weekday more people enter and leave downtown Washington than visit Manhattan Island in New York City.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 5, 1965

That growth means increased well-being for older people, widows and orphans everywhere in the Nation.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 4, 1965

Finally, your report gives eloquent restatement to the basic principle that sound decisions in a free society must be built on the best possible information.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 2, 1965

And so tonight I am going to leave the White House and go away to the hills of home, with my heart full of gratitude for the great progress that a united America has made this week.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 1, 1965

If our astronauts can do what they did the other day--spend 8 days in space--we have got enough ingenuity, imagination, and determination here to get the job done with drought and floods.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 1, 1965

The 89th Congress has responded more to this challenge than any Congress in our history.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 1, 1965

I found it possible to exchange views with the steel negotiators at a particularly appropriate moment today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 30, 1965

It is the mission, therefore, of the USIA to be always loyal and always faithful and always vigilant to the course of the truth.

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