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Lyndon Johnson: “In coming to Washington, as you are now, you are tracing steps I myself once walked-as a 27-year-old new Member of the…”

On the recordDecember 8, 1964
In coming to Washington, as you are now, you are tracing steps I myself once walked-as a 27-year-old new Member of the House.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Reception for the New Democrats in Congress.

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