LBJ announces his plans “Towards the Great Society” on this day in history.  Watch his famous speech here.

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January 4, 1965. LBJ gives his State of the Union address. 

“A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America.

He collects it from the scattered hopes of the American past.

It existed when the first settlers saw the coast of a new world, and when the first pioneers moved westward.

It has guided us every step of the way.

It sustains every President. But it is also your inheritance and it belongs equally to all the people that we all serve.

It must be interpreted anew by each generation for its own needs; as I have tried, in part, to do tonight.

It shall lead us as we enter the third century of the search for ‘a more perfect union.’”

Read it in full here. 

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