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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The years of experience that you have devoted to public life in Minnesota, and in the United States Senate in a position of leadership and as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, have certainly served you in good stead in your…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The task of managing economic policy so as to achieve high employment without overheating will always be difficult.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The science that has increased our abundance can find ways to restore and renew an environment equal to our needs.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

Each evening when I retire, I take up-from a bedside table--reports from the battlefront and reports from the capitals around the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The right of easy access to places of beauty and tranquility where every family can find recreation and refreshment-and the duty to preserve such places clean and unspoiled.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

I have recommended a budget and fiscal policy which, in the best judgment of my advisers and myself, will allow us to sustain solid expansion without overheating the economy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

But we cannot restore--once it is lost--the majesty of a forest whose trees soared upward 2,000 years ago.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

I also want to thank Jack Valenti and Ambassador Hand, Mr. Connell, and Mr. Rielly, and others who contributed so much.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

I want to publicly thank Ambassador Averell Harriman for being available and making the contribution he did in connection with this mission.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1966

The right to enjoy plants and animals in their natural habitats--and the duty not to eliminate them from the face of this earth.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 20, 1966

As a mark of respect to the memory of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, it is hereby ordered, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Proclamation 3044 of March 1, 1954, that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 18, 1966

Starting with the family and community, we must together extend to every American those rights of freedom and opportunity that are the wellspring of America's strength.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 18, 1966

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5234 of Title 10 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows.

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