Lyndon Johnson Audio & Video

Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered this speech on May 22, 1964 in Ann Arbor, MI

Launching what he called the "New Frontier," Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic party's nomination for president at the National Convention in Los Angeles, July 15, 1960.

President Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress on the recent violent events in the South and his Civil Rights bill amendment.

With the war in South East Asia heating up and opinion quickly dividing throughout the member nations, President Johnson received a luke-warm reception during the opening session of the United Nations in 1965.

"So let us here highly resolve that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not live or die in vain"

In his 1965 inauguration speech, Lyndon Baines Johnson discussed the Mars rocket, civil rights, and the challenges ahead for the American people and government.

Below are complete audio recordings of some of Lyndon B. Johnson's most important speeches.

President Johnson spoke to Congress regarding the State of the Union.

"In fact, under the budget that I shall shortly submit, it can be done with an actual reduction in Federal expenditures and Federal employment."

"For myself, I ask only, in the words of an ancient leader: "Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?"