02/28/1977
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"I never knew either Lyndon Johnson or John Kennedy, but I can never forget the impact that their administrations had on my home State of Georgia."
"I know that the pessimists are wrong when they say that the Great Society 'promised too much.'"
"I don't think these are excessive promises."
"I will try to build on the enduring framework of the Great Society and the New Frontier."