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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson reiterated his belief that it was the responsibility of this generation everywhere to join the campaign against poverty and the ills associated with it and pledged American support for worthy projects contributing to the…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Over the years it has been my privilege and good fortune to be closely involved with many of those issues where science and politics have met -- atomic energy, space, national defense, medical research, and others.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I have asked Congress for $450 million less in appropriations than I said I would when I submitted the Budget in January.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I plan to use the jet Air Force One tomorrow to try to meet her in New Orleans, but Lady Bird on her train will probably beat me there.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Our expenditures safeguard the strength of our Nation and of our people, at home and abroad.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson indicated his Government's intention to donate 25,000 tons of grain available under the Food for Peace Program.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson noted with deep appreciation the response by the Philippines to the requests of the Government of Viet-Nam for aid in its defense against communist subversion and aggression.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

In this age, no President can make the vital decisions facing him without utilizing the best of the Nation's scientific and technical advice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

In all that we do, we must strive to channel science and technology and all of human wisdom towards human betterment and away from human catastrophe.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I am freer tonight than I was when I was that boy’s age, because we didn’t have groceries on the table and we were chasing rabbits for food for our children.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I urge civic and service organizations, schools, public bodies, and the media of public information to join in this observance with appropriate activities designed to promote continuing awareness of the significance of the white cane to…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

For myself, I regard it as the mandate of all our experience that we insure the flourishing of science and technology in America -- as nowhere else on earth.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

But a responsible fiscal policy does not end with better programs and their frugal administration.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

For along the road to learning lies our hope for peace among men and nations and that is the goal we seek.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson observed that a team of American experts has arrived in the Philippines and, working with private and public Philippine energy experts, would cooperate in developing plans for this nationwide system of expanding power…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

We are proud: of the new vigor in our long-lived expansion; of the Nation's output now rising at an annual rate of 5 percent; of the 1.2 million jobs added thus far in 1964.

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