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Lyndon Johnson: “If our children's children want to measure what we tried to achieve, I hope they will remember one thing: The American…”

On the recordOctober 7, 1967
If our children's children want to measure what we tried to achieve, I hope they will remember one thing: The American Government in only 3 years multiplied its commitment to education and to health four times over.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to Delegates to the International Conference on the World Crisis in Education, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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