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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

You will renew the most solemn sacrament of democracy--the consent of the governed from which the just powers of government derive.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

I have said, as plainly as I know how, what I hope for America, what I hope for you and your family and for generations yet unborn.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

In every one of those days I have tried with all that God has given me to do my dead level best, to do what I thought was right.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

We propose to improve and to strengthen the social security system that a Democratic President first gave America, and we don't intend to make it voluntary and ruin it, either.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

When President Kennedy was assassinated, he left 51 bills that represented major improvements, and practically every one of those bills was for the average citizen or to improve the lot of the working people, or to help make America better.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

We believe that our elder citizens should be able to live their life in decency and dignity, and we are preparing a program for medical care for our elder citizens.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

He tried his best to serve you, but he was given only 3 years, and he was taken from us.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

I guess that somehow or other they anticipated that I might be coming back here to see you tonight.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

Your privilege of self-government has been granted to only the tiniest fraction of all those who have ever lived on earth.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1964

May it is without objection from the crowd, I will just make it Lyndon Johnson Day in the entire Nation tomorrow.

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