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President Lyndon B. Johnson is shown as he delivered his State of the Union message to a combined session of the 90th Congress on the night of Jan. 10, 1967, in Washington D.C. The President proposed a six per cent increase in federal income tax to help defray the added cost of the Vietnam conflict. On the home front he asked for an increase in social security benefits and to continue the war on poverty. (AP Photo)