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Lyndon Johnson: “I realize, too, how highly we prize freedom-when we send our young to die for it.”

On the recordApril 20, 1966
I realize, too, how highly we prize freedom-when we send our young to die for it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumous) to the Father of Milton L. Olive III

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