Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Today, when marketing charges account for nearly two-thirds of retail food prices, even a significant rise in farm prices has far less impact than do changes in nonfarm cost.

Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Legislative Proposals for Farm Commodity...

04/04/1965

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