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

It is based on mutual trust and will result in mutual benefit--benefit to producers, to labor, and to consumers on both sides of the border.

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

Although I understand your reasons for leaving government service, I accept your resignation, effective at the time you suggested, only with the greatest reluctance.

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

The Food For Peace program has made a significant contribution to the world attack on hunger and malnutrition--still the most grave health problem of the world.

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

President Johnson expressed his admiration for President Yameogo's vigorous efforts to improve the economic and social well-being of the Voltan people and to secure cooperation and peace in Africa.

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

In America today, this generation of Americans is determined to fulfill that ideal by all that we do in the world and by all that we do here at home.

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

Nowhere has this revolution of national independence had greater impact than in Africa.

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

The United States has--and is proud to have--strong and friendly ties with many peoples and many nations on every continent.

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

Students on that campus, where my beloved wife once roamed, study the dialects of West Africa, including Upper Volta.

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

In these last two decades, independence has come for more than 1 billion people in 54 countries.

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

As a tribute to the professional photographer and in recognition of the importance of professional photography in our life today and in America's future, the Congress by a point resolution approved March 29, 1965, has requested the…

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

So long as men anywhere live in poverty, so long as their bodies are afflicted with disease and their children are denied the light of education, this great and restless Nation that we call America will be searching without ceasing for…

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