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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Let us guide our conduct by the Golden Rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

I know that you have no vacancies in the United States Senate, but anything can happen.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Our arms shall be always ready, but our hand shall be always extended to those who will join us in a pursuit of peace with honor.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Today I am able to tell you, and I am able to say to the entire world, we have a major increase in our capacity to detect hostile launches against the free world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

This is another advance in our vigil of peace to fulfill our responsibility as the sentry of security for all the free world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

We sought and we supported a resolution unanimously approved in the United Nations banning the use of weapons of mass destruction in outer space.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Our system is succeeding as none before-anywhere, at any time--have ever succeeded.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Seven years ago America awakened one morning to find a Soviet satellite orbiting the skies.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Previously, our radar capability had been limited to the detection of objects within the line of sight, but now we have produced, and we are installing, our first facilities for operational 'over-the-horizon' radar.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 15, 1964

Each of the great conflicts of this century has begun when nations wrongly thought others would shrink before their might.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 15, 1964

Your Prime Minister has said that 'the great purpose of international statesmanship today must be to... make possible a better life for all.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 15, 1964

We have worked consistently to bring nuclear weapons under careful control, and to lessen the danger of nuclear conflict.

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