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Lyndon Johnson: “He knew that leadership requires not only vision but the skill to move men and to build institutions.”

On the recordJanuary 30, 1967
He knew that leadership requires not only vision but the skill to move men and to build institutions.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Accepting a Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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