LBJ ACCEPTS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Atlantic City, New Jersey (JFK+50) On August 26, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States here in Atlantic City.
Mr. Johnson assumed the Presidency upon the death of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The President said...
"The gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our hearts. So let us...rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch which John Fitzgerald Kennedy set aflame."
LBJ went on to declare that Democrats should not stop to rest...
"until we have written into the law of the land all the suggestions that made up the John Fitzgerald Kennedy program. And then let us continue to supplement that program with the kind of laws he would have us write."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Atlantic City, New Jersey (JFK+50) On August 26, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States here in Atlantic City.
Mr. Johnson assumed the Presidency upon the death of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The President said...
"The gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our hearts. So let us...rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch which John Fitzgerald Kennedy set aflame."
LBJ went on to declare that Democrats should not stop to rest...
"until we have written into the law of the land all the suggestions that made up the John Fitzgerald Kennedy program. And then let us continue to supplement that program with the kind of laws he would have us write."
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States
Portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff
White House Photo
