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

I believe we can make great achievements without great increases in Federal spending.

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

The Federal debt will be lower in relation to gross national product than at any time since 1941.

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

President Johnson indicated his Government's intention to donate 25,000 tons of grain available under the Food for Peace Program.

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

I have asked Congress for $450 million less in appropriations than I said I would when I submitted the Budget in January.

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

Over the years it has been my privilege and good fortune to be closely involved with many of those issues where science and politics have met -- atomic energy, space, national defense, medical research, and others.

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

President Johnson noted past United States support for Philippine agrarian reform and expressed his hope that American assistance could continue in the future, particularly in the realization of the land reform objectives of the…

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

But a responsible fiscal policy does not end with better programs and their frugal administration.

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

They are going to choose to look ahead to the new problems which are rushing in upon us, our overcrowded cities, our inadequate schools, the growing mastery of the machine, the need to use our leisure time wisely and creatively.

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

For along the road to learning lies our hope for peace among men and nations and that is the goal we seek.

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

President Johnson observed that a team of American experts has arrived in the Philippines and, working with private and public Philippine energy experts, would cooperate in developing plans for this nationwide system of expanding power…

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

For myself, I regard it as the mandate of all our experience that we insure the flourishing of science and technology in America -- as nowhere else on earth.

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

I believe the American people and people everywhere want human intelligence to be employed for human advancement -- to enrich and elevate our way of life.

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

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 15, 1964, as White Cane Safety Day.

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

The stability of average wholesale prices, today lower than they were at the start of the expansion and at the time the tax cut was enacted.

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