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On the recordMarch 16, 1966
A Negro scholar and exceptional administrator for the first time sits in the President's Cabinet.
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Eddie Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government

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No man could serve where I have served now for more than 4 years and 5 long months--in this great office of all the people--without sensing that we are once again in 'a new time.'

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I plan to leave here after the press conference this morning to go to Kansas City to meet with President Truman later in the day.

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