Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.
Johnson, Lyndon B. "Remarks on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, Book 1, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966.
Watts is a very low income, Los Angeles neighborhood; Beverly Hills, one of the most affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods. Usually a conservative, Friedman was intellectually very honest and opposed subsidies for the wealthy.
This quotation became very famous because U. S. Senator Joseph Biden Jr. plagiarized it and was caught by the press.
Alabama. Mississippi and the other states of the South have from the inception of the nation had a much poorer educational system (often no system at all). Even when Jim Crow discrimination was rampant in the South, the white schools were very poor and the Black schools terrible. At the end of the 20th century after integration, there were more serious attempts to improve education in the South and progress is being made to reach parity with the rest of the country. However, there is still in many Southern school boards hostility to science and other aspects of modern education and Southern states tend to censor school texts and library books this weakening the educational system. But progress is being made.
He was pushing the idea of getting the poor and destitute of England to go to the American colonies where a labor force was needed. “Fry” was a term for offspring — children.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
