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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 30, 1965

Increasing educational opportunity is only one of the ways that we human beings must meet the pressing demands of the times.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 30, 1965

The job of building sound and effective institutions for financing world trade is never finished.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

This year, with the help of your organization and many other friends of education, Congress enacted its crowning achievement in education--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

Under the provisions of this legislation, more than 5 1/2 million schoolchildren in areas of poverty throughout this Nation from coast to coast will be helped.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

I still think of myself as one, though my classroom career was momentarily interrupted about 35 years ago.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

When President Stillman organized your American Federation of Teachers in 1916, the responsibility for teachers was very high, but, as I have just indicated, the rewards were quite low.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

I requested authorization for the Commerce Department to undertake a program of research and development.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

This High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 really gives us, for the first time in history, a coordinated program for improving the transportation system that we have today, and making it a better servant Of our people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

In the last 2 years, we have enacted--the last 22 months since I have been President-we have passed through the House and the Senate and this President has signed 24 major measures to improve education in America.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 29, 1965

You are thinking to the future, you are moving ahead, you are anticipating the problems of the 20th century, and you are finding solutions to them.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 28, 1965

We have the resources and the incentive to give our children constantly improving medical care.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 28, 1965

I urge each community to study the needs of its schools and to use all the resources at its command to make equal educational opportunity a reality for all Americans.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 28, 1965

Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.

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