Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency - Milestone Documents

Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency

( 1963 ) Commentary by Paul T. Murray, University of Missouri - St. Louis
  • “John F. Kennedy told his countrymen that our national work would not be finished ‘in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But,' he said, ‘let us begin.' Today, in this moment of new resolve, I would say to all my fellow Americans, let us continue.” - Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency
  • “No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.” - Speech to Congress on Assuming the Presidency
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