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On the recordJune 21, 1966
This system has endured--archaic, unjust, and virtually unexamined--ever since the Judiciary Act of 1789.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Bail Reform Act of 1966

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