On the recordSeptember 26, 1976
As I have said many times to audiences around the country, before I did, nobody in my family in more than two hundred years, ever had a chance to finish high school.
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presidency.ucsb.eduAs I have said many times to audiences around the country, before I did, nobody in my family in more than two hundred years, ever had a chance to finish high school.
Remarks in a Question and Answer Session with the AFL-CIO Union Leadership in Portland
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