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On the recordFebruary 27, 1966
Our policy, since I became President, has been to hire and to promote on the basis of ability alone.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Sixth Annual Federal Woman's Award Ceremony

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So, not as partisans, not as Democrats, and not as Republicans, but only and always as Americans let us look to the good that has been wrought.

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But the Congress today has shown that if we have the will, there is a way.

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