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On the recordJune 23, 1965
Congressman, I learned after I had been here only a few days that there are two kinds of horses in the Congress--the showhorses and the workhorses.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Democratic Congressional Dinner in the Washington Hilton Hotel

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