Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights.
01/23/1968
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Mrs. Johnson and I are especially happy to see you, Mr. President.
Your people won our hearts, as they had already earned the respect and the admiration of all the American people.
I rose in the House to support President Truman and his supposedly 'disastrous' policy of containment.
We look to the 60% of Latin America's 245 million people who are now under the age of 25, and we know that the task of meeting their aspirat...