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Lyndon Johnson: “I am a free man first, an American second, a public servant third, and a Democrat fourth, in that order.”

On the recordOctober 21, 1966
I am a free man first, an American second, a public servant third, and a Democrat fourth, in that order.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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