LBJ SPEAKS TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
Washington, D.C. (JFK ASSASSINATION) Lyndon Baines Johnson addressed a joint session of the United States Congress tonight less than one week after he assumed the presidency upon the death of President Kennedy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President
Photo by Arnold Newman
White House Press Office
President Johnson said:
"All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today."
LBJ continued:
"We will carry on the fight against poverty & misery & disease & ignorance, in other lands & in our own."
In reference to JFK's stalled legislative program, LBJ added:
"No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor JFK's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."
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"Under John Kennedy's leadership, this Nation has demonstrated that it has the courage to seek peace, & it has the fortitude to risk war.
We have proved that we are a good & reliable friend to those who seek peace & freedom.
We have shown that we can also be a formidable foe to those who reject the path of peace.
On the 20th day of January, in 1961, JFK told his countrymen that our national work would not be finished 'the the 1st 1000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But, ' he said, 'let us begin.'
Today in this moment of new resolve, I would say to all my fellow Americans, let us continue."
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