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Jimmy Carter: “More than any President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson reminded the American people that poverty has no…”

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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