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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 23, 1964

You have today submitted to me the report of the Commission which I appointed on November 29 last to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 23, 1964

Your Commission, I know, has been guided throughout by a determination to find and to tell the whole truth of these terrible events.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 23, 1964

His record of design achievement in aviation is both incomparable and virtually incredible.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 23, 1964

I have given instructions for the prompt publication of this report to the American people and to the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

Yes, to you good members of this honorable and responsible union there is work for you to do, for us to do--work to build this good society better, work to make this strong country the foundation of a great and a compassionate civilization.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

I call upon you, here and now, to begin this hour to start fighting in order to save it.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

Americans are faced with a concerted bid for power by factions which oppose all that both parties have supported.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

We have no time for callousness on contempt, either in the policies of our Nation or in the hearts of our leaders.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

Hence from Plymouth Rock until this day, Americans have been careful about the welfare of their fellow man.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

In 1914 the first old-age pension was established in a State where character has not been collectivized by compassion - the great State of Arizona.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1964

The object of all we do is to give our people a fair start or a new start in the race of life, whatever lot they are born to, whatever fate may befall them.

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