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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I want to ask each of you to pledge yourselves this morning to go out for the next 4 weeks, for the next 30 days, and contribute your time and your talents and your energy to your country by supporting Gus Johnson for Congress and Lyndon…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Don’t let folks mislead you and tell you that you ought to change horses in the middle of a stream.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson made it clear that, in accordance with these existing alliances and the deployment and dispositions thereunder, any armed attack against the Philippines would be regarded as an attack against United States forces…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Never before within the memory of any person here have the American people been asked to make a basic and radical departure from the beliefs and values which are the source of our economic health and our hopes for peace.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

This is what it means to Americans today to have responsible and responsive fiscal and monetary policies.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Each day I rely more and more on your colleague, Dr. Donald Hornig -- not only as my Science Adviser but as counselor on many other subjects.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

President Johnson pointed out in this regard that United States economic relations with the Philippines would be seriously impaired if an enforcement of the Philippine Retail Trade Nationalization Law were to prejudice the position of…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

In all that we do, we must strive to channel science and technology and all of human wisdom towards human betterment and away from human catastrophe.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

But fiscal responsibility does not mean the lowest possible Federal budget, obtained by ruthlessly slashing existing Federal programs and never proposing new ones.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

America is the strongest nation in all the world, and stronger than all the rest put together.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

I am freer tonight than I was when I was that boy’s age, because we didn’t have groceries on the table and we were chasing rabbits for food for our children.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

Federal employment will be lower in relation to population than at any time since 1950.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

In this age, no President can make the vital decisions facing him without utilizing the best of the Nation's scientific and technical advice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 5, 1964

As long as I am your President, we are not going to plow under the family farm in this country.

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