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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Campobello Island, New Brunswick, 8/20/1964"
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- know that Campobello is unique. Its name has become synonymous with greatness. In a troubled time, it stands as witness to our unfortified boundaries and to our friendship with our generous Canadian neighbors. As an American, the journey to Campobello
- of Fredericksburg and nearby c ounties are looking to future needs -- and preparing to meet them in time. - 1 : ( .... . .. ... " I heard with interest of yotr Salem Church Dam Project which will conserve that resource that every Texan appreciates water
- to 300, 000. And on all fronts, women's organizations are eager to g ive time in the 1, 000 communities where programs will get u.n derway on July 1. ~lunteer This response is a great joy to all of us. The President has asked me to thank all of you
- will be t~=:.il ~d to b~ar ci.bm.:.t. the program. There is now a wav all o: t~em can help either i n encoaraging a child to attend or in giving volunteer time at foe p r ojects. Hea.d Start is the pr~gram organized and adminis tered by tb.e waich will gi·1e
- bestowed upon me. I shall treas u re it and remember always thia spring evening when this great city is filled with blossoms and music . No one can drive through N ew York at this time of year .... as \", I have done this afternoon -- without realizing
- to respond to loving care . It has been a brief time since the start of Head Start. Its measure will be seen years f.rom now when these children have progressed - - most hopefully - - through school toward a happy and self-reliant adulthood. All of its
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Stage - East Room, 9/29/1965"
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- and President Buchanan was host to entire companies of opera stars . In the time of President Theodore Roosevelt these very walls vibrated to the magic of Enrico Caruso and to the power of Paderewski. So you can see there have long been ties between the White
- . What is it that prompts us all? Since the beginning of time, man turned to nature -- for inspiration, for joy, for solace. The psalms and the poetry · throughout our history recount the strength from the hills and the peace from the waters which comes
- submitting it as a personal claim. 2. Advisability I agree, the forum and the occasion are the very best. Such a step, at·this time, precludes any possibility that later events might be interpreted as the cause, as Truman's decision was partly attributed
- educational vistas ? There was a time when a library was viewed as a cold storage locker for books; a time when the watchword of the librarian was "Silence PJ.ease . " There is the story told about John Langdon Sibley, a librarian at H a rvard in the 19th
- long to answer: "You ask if it will work to invest some time and money in the kids of this country? l remember 40 years ago in Cleveland. Tbere was a group of young boys -- out on the streets. They were ripe for trouble. But a young teacher, Miss Jesse
- slums, ghettos, littered roads. But we should remember, perhaps, that our word "criais" cornes from the Greek word for decision. A time of difficulty calls for dêcisions - and this ti me calls on us to choose: between apathy and action in cities
- , not oniy within the seashore areas, but on its commercial fringes, to make man 1s structures in harmony with na,ture 1 So The time and thought inve sted in s uc h d atails as whel"e the roads will thread the island, where build ings ·w!ll b e in harmony
- grew up in a uaii rural tonn. This was the important pl a ce and S aturday afternoons wer e the important time. You drovc to to1m, circled. the sc;_u a re over and ove r to see what was happening in the world • iLrid yo u probably bought a double-dip
- of time and thought tbey represent -- must continue. And they must increase, for population is going to increase; awareness is going to increase; products and their packages are going to increase. Sur ely it is time for Americans to cure the litterbug
- am glad and grateful to have the opportunity to play a role in this campaign. The writer, E. B. White, has remarked: "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. 11 This is our faith
- -- and where -- do young people, ar1d mothers, and little children, and weary executives use their precious hours of leisure time ? A little over a year ago, some of you wèze here for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty which was called by my huaband
- is lurninous and delicate. It is found in chambers and arches and tapestried canyon walls. lts texture is ancient. It conaists of eons of time laid bare -- on stone pages or in the treasure troves of Indian mythe and artifacts. It is these attractions
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson upon Arrival at Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9/22/1966"
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- have visited here many times with my brother - - Tony Taylor - but because both he and your Senators keep me informed of the exciting development and growth of the state. Let me say right now that what I have seen in the past few hours bas left me
- . It shows that Head Start tackles the problem at the most crucial age - when the difference for good or ill can be made, when the most can be done, when the investment in time and money brings the most telling results. ldeally, we would hope that Head Start
- that this time is as full of hope as Jefferson•s or Polk1s -- let tbem come to this spoto Foi- Columbia Colloge is an admonition to any pessimist: stop wringing your bands for a moment - and list en td the ringing of eie school belle in our new country
- there is a Women's Pavilion at Hemisfair, and delighted this facility will have a strong purpose in future years. Here on this platform are many women I have known whose lives have e x panded with the exciting challenges and opportunities oî our times. Women
- on the air. It is a many-faceted bond we share, And I bellew tb.at in onr time in this ho use all of y ou here have belped that word become a more vital part of the political language. F or all of us that w ord has special rneaning, T o me, it is sometimes
- are graspiםg tbe lirnitless opportunities tbat present themselves in our time • - 1 MORE In Denver, we will see in action a way that aU Americans can have good health care in their neighborhoods -- and in the renaissance of a blighted downtown area
- in the Nation's Capitol along with other heroic men and women who took giant steps for progress. They rightly call Wyoming "the Equality State". There never was a time in Wyoming's history when woman wasn 1t man 1s full partner. She had to be. In your early
- gave my husband his Silve r Star in the South Pacific during World \Wlir II. Just last January, General Mac Arthur said: "If I'd known Lyndon was to become President, I would have looked after his welfare better than I did, but at the time he seemed
- at the Navy Yard. So the partnership means jobs and a better community to live in. It spells prosperity for Charleston, and at the same time greater economic and defense strength for the whole country. This partnership takes Federal resources. And it takes men
- to be in that part of the country where, although you might not like all I say, at least you understand the way I say it. From the time I was six years old, summer meant coming back to Alabama. As I think back to my girlhood, I have so many memories filled
- and pioneered by people of foresi ghi: spi::ited "can - do people - - should unde rstnad this better than a nyone . And you say i t every time you elect men like John Connally and Jum Wright . I am a Democrat and proud of i t . I am a Democrat from the White
- bill, then it is because enough of us who care have ~said what we feel in time . But we WILL on another day. Better landscaping a nd good design are also part of the new horizons on the natural beauty front . None of these are abstract causes of purely
- , she found a place to live comfortably while she filled out the inevitable Form 572 dozens of times and looked for a job in the vast and sometimes--alas--impersonal employer -- the United States Government. ~onvenient in the ~eart of the city for her
- these beginnings -- to bring down the curtain on a time of energy and movement and compassion in America? 1 believe that would be a tragedy. Hope and progress and compassion can be kept alive in America; they can prevail in the future we hope to build. "'AIT
- faculty mea and women, and above all, to yourselves who have recognized the opportunity and acted upon it. You now have a precious educational equipment and the question is: What are you going to do with it? In times past, in a number of countries
- . That development will go ahead, and as President, I am here to promise you that it will go on schedule. just had to break my budget one time this year. I had ::il billion less in the budget this year than last year. I was determined to keep it that way until ~-1ike
- . It is 35 times as large as the Panama C anal , Grand Coolee Dam and St. Lawrence Seaway combined. Above that, in the next six yea r s, you are planning to build halt- a-million miles of road. Your creations, your works a.re as public as any can
- of the great strategists of all time--the Emperor Napoleon, once said that "Where flowers degenerate, man cannot live." The MORE t demise of natural beauty is a baunting challenge in a Nation that is covering over a million acres of ground with aspb alt
- our own good achievements. VIe must not be complacent -- never ! We must be struggling always. But certainly we do not have to spend our time on a collective psychiatrist couch. -z .. Skepticism is val.id, but cynicism -- the kind of doubt which
- its results. Their loving care and supplementary, e nlightened atten tion is vital to the progress of a patient. There are many groupa which give their time and devotion to this service. One is the Jaycees Auxiliary. Seventy- eight percent
- \on, for recreation in the Nation 1 s Capital -- in the mcs t creative way. The project might be called "Mission 1 76." It is an exciting, provocative and hopeful proposal. believe, to set goals and a target time. It is important, I One of the happiest experiences
- and triumphs : 12 Presidents, 15 signe rs of the Constitution, 15 Se cretaries of State from Thomas Jeffe r son t o Dean Rusk. > I . . .. . . .. . ·. . ..... ., ..--" Yet in recent times, we re c ognize the strain in the South from national life