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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

We all pray that we will somehow, some way, learn how to live in the world with other people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

Our ultimate employment goal--job opportunities for all persons willing and able to work--can and will be achieved in the years to come

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

The whole United States is watching and waiting for you to elect a new Governor in Michigan, Neil Staebler.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

When I assumed the oath of office, I said to the American people and to the world that with God's help and with your prayers, I would do the best I could.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The term 'guideposts' conveys exactly what was intended--not hard and fast prescriptions for every wage settlement or price decision--but criteria for responsible action by both labor and business.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

With some exceptions, price and wage decisions have been within the framework of the guideposts in the 1961-64 period.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The guideposts provide the public with a means of judging whether the price and wage decisions made by business and labor are noninflationary and therefore consistent with the public interest.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

In your lifetime and mine, there has never been a moment when America more needed its unity, or the world more needed a united America, than today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The guideposts are a sound basis for continued price stability and are increasingly important as our economy rises closer and closer to its full potential.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

Since 1961 the wholesale price record in the United States is the best of any major country in the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

Average wage and benefit increases have not exceeded the long-run rise in the productivity of our workers, so that labor cost per unit of output has not risen since the beginning of 1961.

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