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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

So the task for the United States is to keep our policies flexible, to keep them responsible, and to search for new opportunities to favor freedom in a rapidly changing world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

I am proud to ask my Nation's trust in the continued building of its bipartisan foreign policy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 29, 1964

So if you want peace and if you want prosperity, then I ask you to lend me your help, lend me your hand, give me your heart, give me your support.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

For every man who labors, there must be respect for his rights and opportunity for his advancement in a growing America.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

President Kennedy returned from Salt Lake City knowing, as he had not known before, that the people of America supported his efforts to make this world safer for all mankind.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

With some exceptions, price and wage decisions have been within the framework of the guideposts in the 1961-64 period.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

THE PRICE-WAGE guideposts were developed under President Kennedy and reaffirmed by this administration to facilitate decisions by business and labor that help us preserve price stability.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

Average wage and benefit increases have not exceeded the long-run rise in the productivity of our workers, so that labor cost per unit of output has not risen since the beginning of 1961.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

Since 1961 the wholesale price record in the United States is the best of any major country in the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

The term 'guideposts' conveys exactly what was intended--not hard and fast prescriptions for every wage settlement or price decision--but criteria for responsible action by both labor and business.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1964

We must provide for our children an opportunity for the best education that he or she can absorb, because in this technological age they are going to be at a great disadvantage if they have not accumulated all the information and knowledge…

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