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“The purpose of protecting the life of our nation and preserving
                                         the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our

                                         people. Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a
                 The                     nation.”                    - Excerpted from Lyndon B. Johnson speech at



              Great                                           University of Michigan commencement, May 1964



           Society





                                           • For a century, the US labored to settle and to subdue a
                                                continent. We called upon unbounded invention and

                                                untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all our

                                                people.

                                           • President Lyndon B. Johnson expressed ‘the challenge of

                                                the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use
                                                that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to

                                                advance the quality of our American civilization.”
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