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Lyndon Johnson: “It is for them--not for the statisticians and economists--that we have come here to plan, to dream and to work.”

On the recordApril 12, 1967
It is for them--not for the statisticians and economists--that we have come here to plan, to dream and to work.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Punta del Este at the Public Session of the Meeting of American Chiefs of State.

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