President Johnson's 1964 State of the Union address, 1/8/64. MP503
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- President Johnson's State of the Union address, 1964.1/8/64.
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“To put country before party and to always debate principals never personalities”. Sound words from President LBJ.
Mister Speakuhhh--the President of the United States!
I have been working for Head Start for 45 years! I have seen many successes and changes! This program has helped so many families down through the years! Thank God for people like President Johnson who had the vision to help children and families of ouor nation!
The illegitimate president having come to the presidency via the murder of his predecessor John f. Kennedy who was slain in the home state of the New illegitimate presidents Lyndon b. Johnson who had spent the past 3years in misery as vice president under Kennedy and who had participated in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas Texas on November 22.1963
My dad was 5 years old at the time and my mom wasn't even born yet as she was born in 68
It should had been JFK giving the State of the Union Address that day.
Vietnam aside he was an amazing president and as I Texan myself I admire him so much for the civil rights act and the great society legislation. He truly was a remarkable president he is second to FDR.
The is the big speech where President Lyndon Johnson called for finishing President Kennedy's agenda. And also where he called for eliminating poverty in America with all sorts of new federal programs.
Didn't kennedy want civil rights and a bunch of spending programs for the poor?
Remarkable
I am amazed by the stark contrasts of then vs now, for sure...especially desire for more libraries then. Technology made them almost obsolete now. I know one thing...if I could go back to this time I would hoard lots of dimes and quarters before they removed the silver out of them the next year.
I am almost 59 years old. When I hear the words on the news "the president" my mind hears this voice. This is who I think of when I hear those words. I know that there have been nine more since, but this is the man. He dreams. Somehow between 1964 and 2017 we don't dream, but blame and try to scare and worry more about party than nation.
Currently, we are trying to go back to isolationism and allow Germany, Russia and China to direct events. Think about that. Maybe that's been tried before and led to us being the leaders. We have to lead and not shrink backward.
The current world needs to listen to the last 13 minutes of this speech.
Almost 65 and I have similar memory and reaction,seems he was in office most of our youth,though I remember Kennedy well too. Since LBJ left office,things have been going downhill,slowly at first,other times fast. Not only in politics,crime,the economy,etc.,but other social,entertainment,cultural ways of life. It's like we stopped making progress in government after 1968,only technology and medicine have advanced.
srmichel417 really with all those young people coming home in body bags this is the times you point to. Assassination s galore. Shootings on college canpus. A hateful south. My you give us something to think about.
Agreed
19:38 - 20:04
Its been fifty years, I hope it doesn't take another fifty to realize that this line is the most important; the line that eludes to the solution of all afore mentioned social problems.
Freedom evolves, the human mind is a possibility machine. It's creations elevate physical labor through technology thus opening new opportunities for flourishing while making older uses of labor obsolete.
The tick is, how do we get people to realize technology can remove the need for privatized labor, all together? Thus redefining what 'labor' is and enabling us to redefine what freedom really is...
Personal Freedom: Not being bound by the coercion of personal, commercial, governmental, religious and/or private labor. You are as free (sustainable) as nature allows (not the naturalistic fallacy or Humes' is/ought); not as determinded by financial/political contrivance.
Remember, 'freedoms' proclamated on paper are not empirical, they don't manifest physically. In other words, in a monetary based 'democracy' you are only as FREE as your purchasing power. Sounds like variation on a theme to me; slavery.
I hope I'll be around in 100 years, to look back and see when we finally realized that slavery never went away, we just reinvented it in euphemistic fashion. Children of that time will be so confused, wondering how we could've been so blind to this oppression of virtually every human on the planet. Just like all of us who benefit from this system now can look back and see that we have it better then 'the rich' of the past. Likewise, technology will enable for EVERYONE in the future a better quality of life then the '1%' have now!
Don't believe me, good. I dare you to research it. Here are some terms to get going:
ephemeralization
technological unemployment
the (technological) contradiction of Capitalism.
Johnson didn't have a vp then..So who was sitting behind him where the vp would normally sit?
86 year old Senator Carl Hayden Arizona (D) President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
The Speaker of The House sat behind the President in the chair normally occupied by the Vice President.
The President pro tempore of the Senate sat in the chair normally occupied by the Speaker of the House. (The President pro tempore is typically the senator of the majority party, Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona. Sidenote: Whenever the Vice Presidency is vacant, the President pro tempore of the Senate gets a temporary raise: his salary is equivalent to The Vice President. )
Watching those southern senators sit on their hands when Johnson calls for civil rights for all makes me smile. Their world is coming to an end and they can't even see it.........the more things change, the more they remain the same. He called for on war on poverty, today republicans call for a war on the poor.
Oh, they could see the end coming, alright. That's why they sat on their hands.
Rfk looks pissed,
What part ?
Probably because his brother should’ve made that speech.
@@_mason_3962he was probably aware LBJ most likely killed JFK
44% of the Budget is mandatory spending on all these programs. This contributes heavily to our current National debt and deficit spending.
Hey James just wanted to let you know that austerity budgets only hurt overall economic growth. In 1940 10% of the US population is unemployed and the national debt is at $43 billion by 1945 the national debt was at $258.7 billion and the unemployment rate was down to 1.2% a historic low. This came from government investment in infrastructure, power, the manufacturing sector, conservation, education, work and social programs, and in new programs like social security. When every people talk about social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, people always talk about how we have to cut their budgets because they are to expensive, but we never hear any political talk about how much money out military takes up. The only way to simulate a economy and continue growth is to do massive economic stimulus packages that help people.
LBJ would have been the greatest President ever, except for you know what.
emocrats in both chambers were the bulk of the opposition to the Act of 1964 80% of Republicans voted for the passing of the Act. If left to the Democrats the Act would have never passed.
That's because half of the Democrats in the Congress were Southerners.
+Khosro Fravahar Correct, LBJ said, when he signed the voting rights act of 65 that "we've lost the south for a generation." Those democrats bolted the party and make up the 'base' of the current republican party. The progressive wing of the GOP has gone independent or joined the democratic party since.
Then explain why those democrats became republicans.
because those democrats were racist dickheads and that's pretty much all you have in the current gop
Most of the country was democrat for a long time after FDR. Then the civil rights era legislation turned the 'dixiecrats' away from the party, and now they are republicans.
Just a little teeny mistake..
LBJ would be the greatest President next to Lincoln had it not been for Vietnam.
after FDR too,he wanted to be the 2nd FDR,Vietnam was forced on him and caused him pain...read his memoirs
Who is sitting behind & to the far left of LBJ?
That seat is reserved for the vice president, but LBJ had not appointed a vice president yet.
John McCormack, Speaker of the House (on the left).
Carl Hayden, President Pro Tempore (on the right).
At the time, there was no amendment(the 25th) to allow for the appointment of a new VP when the office became open by elevation to the Presidency or death or resignation of the VP. The 25th was ratified in 1965.
Hubert Humphrey was VP elect. He did not take the oath of office until Jan. 20th.
Richard Cook this is early 1964, many months before the 1964 election in November
@@richardcook6284 Mr Cook, the election is not for 10 months yet, in Nov. '64, this state of address is Jan '64, Mr. Humphrey won't be VP for 1 yr, on Jan. 20, '65