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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 17, 1964

The lands described in Proclamation No. 2263 of December 7, 1937, and shown by diagram attached thereto, are hereby excluded from the Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, and transferred to and made a part of the Oconee National Forest…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 17, 1964

Lands comprising the N 1/2 SW 1/4 of Section 31, T. 3 N., R. 1 W., 2nd Principal Meridian, are, subject to valid existing rights, hereby added to and made a part of the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 17, 1964

A President has no greater duty than to use every strength and talent to keep America as a land to which many will want to come--and none will want to leave.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 17, 1964

If I have any influence with the Post Office Department, and I think that I may, we will issue the stamp.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Previously, our radar capability had been limited to the detection of objects within the line of sight, but now we have produced, and we are installing, our first facilities for operational 'over-the-horizon' radar.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

This means more time to prepare for our retaliatory strike and more time for us to decide, to decide with prudence and reason, the scope and the extent of our retaliatory strike.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Today I am able to tell you, and I am able to say to the entire world, we have a major increase in our capacity to detect hostile launches against the free world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

This is another advance in our vigil of peace to fulfill our responsibility as the sentry of security for all the free world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

What men are in America is not determined by their pedigree or their purse but by their soul and spirit and by their God-given worth.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

On this day 177 years ago our forefathers ordained and established the Constitution of the United States.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

I know that you have no vacancies in the United States Senate, but anything can happen.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

Our will and our work today is that the meaning of our country and our Constitution, and our destiny, shall be the same for all Americans, regardless of their creed or their color or their origins.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 16, 1964

We sought and we supported a resolution unanimously approved in the United Nations banning the use of weapons of mass destruction in outer space.

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