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April 29th, 1964
On this day in 1964, President Johnson made remarks to a group of civil rights leaders. Those leaders were: Most Reverend Patrick A. O’Boyle, Archbishop of Washington and chairman of the Interreligious Committee on Racial Relations; the Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Reverend B. Julian Smith, Bishop of the First Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches; and Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue Council of America.
“Our most immediate need is to pass the civil rights bill now before the Congress. A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry. A hundred years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, but until education is unaware of race, until employment is blind to color, emancipation will be a proclamation, but it will not be a fact.
“This bill is intended to help our communities find peaceful solutions to problems of human relations. Many of these communities have asked for the provisions in this bill so that the same standards can be applied to all businesses serving the public, and so the taxpayers can be given assurance that public funds will be administered equitably.”
April 29th, 1967
On this day in 1967, President Johnson made a statement upon authorizing construction of a prototype Supersonic Transport Aircraft. LBJ said,
“The impact of the supersonic transport program will be felt well beyond our own shores. Jet aircraft have already brought the world closer to us. Commercial supersonic transports—traveling at 1800 miles an hour or even faster—will make South America and Africa next-door neighbors. Asia will be as close to us as Europe is today.
“Only by sustaining the highest levels of business-Government cooperation will we reach that stage of progress.”
April 29th, 1968
On this day in 1968, President Johnson accepted an award from the International Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association. LBJ stated,
“We have to make certain that every young man and woman in America is fully alerted to the ruinous danger of drug addiction.
“We have to try to find new ways to salvage the lost life of the addict and bring him back into the community as a productive and healthy citizen.”