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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

This forward-looking State must have a forward-looking Senator, not a turn back one.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

This Nation is respected because we use our strength with restraint, and we use our responsibility with judgment.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

At home we are going to continue the unprecedented prosperity of the last 45 months of the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson administration.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

We have peace in the world and we have peace between the employer and the employee.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

We are going to expand that social security system and we are going to strengthen it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

The big question you have to decide is how can the United States formulate a policy and prepare a program that can get these people to learn to live in a world together without using our rockets and without dropping our bombs, and without…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

It should also strengthen existing programs of Federal-State-local cooperation in such vital areas as public assistance, public health, urban renewal, highways, recreation, and education.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

It is great to be back in the biggest city in America, to see the biggest crowds of all time, and to have you tell me that you are going to the polls next Tuesday and give the Democrats the biggest election victory in the history of…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

The administration did not get everything it initially proposed to the Congress in the area of income tax reform; but many significant reforms were enacted.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

Every mother here is more concerned with peace and keeping her boys from going to war than she is with her own life.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

There is no room in America for trigger-happy threats in a world that is made dark by the shadow of nuclear catastrophe.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

What they do want to know is how do we feel about the bread and butter issues that feed their families.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 27, 1964

California and San Bernardino are a growing State and a growing city--and a growing population needs a growing economy.

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