Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

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

07/29/1965

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