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Lyndon Johnson: “You may want peace with your neighbor, too, and you may be willing to go across the road and into his yard to try to…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1968
You may want peace with your neighbor, too, and you may be willing to go across the road and into his yard to try to talk him into it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to Delegates to the National Farmers Union Convention in Minneapolis.

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