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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 27, 1965

Without thought of gain, without thought of conquest, without wish for aggrandizement, we have committed our lives, our property, our resources, and our sacred honor to the freedom and peace of other men, indeed to the freedom and peace of…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 27, 1965

I want you to know I am very grateful to each of you for the sacrifices you have made in assuming these responsibilities.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 27, 1965

Public service requires much dedication, much devotion, and a great deal of self-sacrifice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 27, 1965

Eleanor Roosevelt once said near the end of her life that anyone who believes that in every human being there is a spark of the divine must believe that to enable him to develop his potentialities to the maximum is the highest purpose that…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

Our enemies would have you believe that we are following policies that are ill-advised, but we are following the same policies in Asia that we followed in Europe, that we followed in Turkey and Greece and Iran.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

I am pleased also to announce today that the war on poverty is setting up 10 new Job Corps conservation camps in nine States.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

I do sometimes wonder how some people can be so concerned with our bombing a cold bridge of steel and concrete in North Viet-Nam, but never open their mouths about a bomb being placed in our embassy in South Viet-Nam.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

We feel very friendly toward the people of India and the Government of India; toward the people of Pakistan and the Government of Pakistan.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

We who knew him knew that he was a gallant fighter, a man who dedicated his life both as a newsman and as a public official to an unrelenting search for truth.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1965

I urge the people of the United States to give public and private expression on that day to the abiding love and gratitude which they bear for their mothers by display of the flag at their homes or other suitable places and through prayer…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 25, 1965

If this program is to work successfully it requires, as do all of our efforts, the support and the cooperation particularly of business, of labor, of every department of the Federal Government, and of all of our communities throughout the…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 25, 1965

We must make certain that there are jobs which graduates of this program can fill.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 23, 1965

So, I am very privileged now to thank you for permitting me to come here and crown the lovely queen of the Azalea Festival of 1965.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 23, 1965

The date of the commencing of combatant activities in such area is hereby designated as January 1, 1964

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