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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.