Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 28, 1968
We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be sick--without medical attention.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Opening the Midyear Conference of Governors of the States and Territories.

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