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Lyndon Johnson: “It is tragic that we have tended to neglect these areas amid the rush of metropolitan growth.”

On the recordJune 22, 1964
It is tragic that we have tended to neglect these areas amid the rush of metropolitan growth.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks on the Transfer to New Jersey of Lands for the Sandy Hook State Park.

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