Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 Inauguration Speech

President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In 1965, after he was elected to a full term, he talked of the rapid changes the country faced but the unchanged character of the American people. “Is our world gone?” he asked. “We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it and we will bend it to the hopes of man.”