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It is needed in the true interests of the United States and in fairness and justice to all.

And in appreciation for what you have done, and with the personal thanks for the support that you have given to both President Kennedy and to me, it gives me a great deal of personal pleasure in awarding you, this morning, here among your…

America wins the wars that she undertakes.

I direct the appropriate Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day

I don't want to go back there until I have to, and I thought you would probably enjoy coming to the White House equally as much.

We must never allow ourselves to be cowed by conformity.

I think this is needed for the protection and promotion of peaceful trade, as well as for the welfare of the Hemisphere.

I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here.

And to you and Mrs. Clifton and your family, I want you to know that wherever you go, whatever you do, we will be pulling for you, we will be remembering that the day was never too long, the night too dark, for you to do what the boss…

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Coast Guard on August 4…

I also urge appropriate State and local officials, as well as public and private organizations, to join in the observance of this milestone in the history of the Coast Guard.

I take pleasure in submitting the first annual report of the Commission.

You have earned this medal, and you have earned with it the respect and the gratitude of the entire Nation.

One of the oldest and one of the most honored offices of the Government of the United States is the Office of Military Aide to the President of the United States.

I do hereby designate Monday, October 11, 1965, as General Pulaski's Memorial Day

I wish to reiterate the importance which I attach to pressing forward with plans and preparations for a sea-level canal.

In 20 months we have agreed to 15 different approaches to try to bring peace, and each one of them has been turned down by the other side.

This week we're going to have the most comprehensive housing bill in 50 years, to try to permit every person to have a roof over the head of his wife and his children.