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Lyndon Johnson: “No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1965
No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks With President Truman at the Signing in Independence of the Medicare Bill

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