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On the recordSeptember 11, 1976
More than any President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson reminded the American people that poverty has no place in a land that is as rich as this nation.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Statement for the Lyndon B. Johnson/John F. Kennedy Libraries Symposium on The Great Society Held in Austin

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