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Lyndon Johnson: We have the wealth and power to make slums and crowding and urban decay only a memory.

On the recordOctober 14, 1966
We have the wealth and power to make slums and crowding and urban decay only a memory.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to a Group of Mayors of the Nation's Larger Cities.

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