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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

It is not a matter of reducing public service. It is a matter of reducing public waste.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

In your hands is the decision to choose the man that you will entrust with this responsibility for your survival.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

We believe that our elder citizens should be able to live their life in decency and dignity, and we are preparing a program for medical care for our elder citizens.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

May it is without objection from the crowd, I will just make it Lyndon Johnson Day in the entire Nation tomorrow.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

Your warm and generous welcome makes Lady Bird and Lynda and Luci and me know that we are home again among our home folks, our neighbors, and our loyal supporters.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

He tried his best to serve you, but he was given only 3 years, and he was taken from us.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

We propose to improve and to strengthen the social security system that a Democratic President first gave America, and we don't intend to make it voluntary and ruin it, either.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

I am going to do it because I think that he has loyally and effectively worked for the Democratic program for all the people, and I want to be President of all the people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

I am mighty happy that during that period when the hotheads were around and when people were yelling all kinds of advice, that the coolest, the calmest, the ablest man in that room was the man that you had selected as Commander in Chief…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

The only attacks that I have resented in this campaign are the charges which are based on the idea that the Presidency is something apart from the people, opposed to them, against them.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

In every one of those days I have tried with all that God has given me to do my dead level best, to do what I thought was right.

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