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Lyndon Johnson: “We Americans do not believe in moral double-bookkeeping--and so today we stand before the world asking only that others…”

On the recordOctober 2, 1966
We Americans do not believe in moral double-bookkeeping--and so today we stand before the world asking only that others employ a similar, single standard of evaluation.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach as Under Secretary of State.

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