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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

From that day to this, I have been dedicated--as I shall be while there is breath in me--to that system's strength and its stability and its success.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

These young men and women will go to the barrios of Santo Domingo and Santiago to work with and to work for the people of the Dominican Republic in attaining a new life and a new hope.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

For more than 51 consecutive months, we have had the longest peacetime expansion America has ever known.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

It was here, at my father's side, that I was first exposed to the strength, the vitality, and the enduring value of our system of representative democracy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 27, 1965

There are very few deliberative bodies that have the reputation that you members of the Senate have--charity toward one another.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

Weapons have themselves become a cause of fear and a cause of distrust among other nations.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

I know that governments cannot easily be persuaded to cease their ancient rivalries or to lay aside their weapons or their arms, but I also know that the nations of mankind that are huddled together on a crowded globe have a common…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

One modern warhead today carries enough firepower to make the nuclear blast of 20 years ago seem a very pale flicker by comparison.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

I have stressed that we must reorganize and modernize the Government's organization structure in order to focus responsibilities, increase efficiency, and meet present-day needs more effectively.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

Our democracy depends in major part upon the Federal Government's adaptability, on its capacity for fast flexible response to changing needs imposed by changing circumstances.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

The amendment to Executive Order 10358 ordered by section 1 of this order, shall be effective upon issuance of this order.

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