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Speech of
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.)
January 3, 1953
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Mr. President:
We are on the threshhold of a New Year and a new Congress.
We have a new Commander-in-Chief and soon a new administration
will arrive to take over the leadership of our Government.
It is customary at such times for men to pause and reflect --
to weigh the past and take stock of the present -- to count the assets
and debits of life -- and to plan for the future. As men act, so do
political parties.
I do not believe that any man here will claim the wisdom to see
into the future. We are meeting in all due humility to grapple with
tremendous problems, We will -- almost surely -- strike out on new
courses; step forth on untried paths. Where they will lead, we do not
as yet know.
There is only one certainty. It is that the American people
have sent us here to solve problems -- not to invent problems. They
are looking to us for service to our country -- not just service to a
partisan ideal,
We will, of course, face the issues of this Congress in the
traditional American way -- as a majority and a minority. There
will be divisions and they will be deep -- sometimes heated and possibly
even bitter. That is part of our system of Government and it is a system
that has worked well.
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