| President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inaugural Address | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 830 |
| Catalog #: | 525695 | |
| Clip Number: | 525695-7 | |
| Orginal Film: | MP-802 | |
| Timecode: | 00:25:58 - 00:30:45 | |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Inaugurations LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) POLITICS: Public Address (Speech) | |
| Description: | President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson) delivering Inaugural Address: "Under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation - prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit. I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again - but always trying and always gaining. In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again. If we fail now then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. If we succeed it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we believe. For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and in our own union. We believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in ourselves. And that is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime, in depression and in war they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith that they could not see or that they could not even imagine. And it brought us victory. And it will again." | |
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