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Lyndon Johnson: “The British love liberty and they embrace freedom and they despise bondage.”

On the recordDecember 6, 1964
The British love liberty and they embrace freedom and they despise bondage.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Harold Wilson

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