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On the recordAugust 28, 1964
We couldn't make any precommitments and we wouldn't sign a blank check to a treaty that we didn't know what was in it, but that we would do what was fair, what was right, and what was just.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Barbecue in Stonewall, Texas

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