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Lyndon Johnson: We are engaged in a great national effort to lift the blight of bad housing, poor education, and unemployment from our…

On the recordNovember 12, 1966
We are engaged in a great national effort to lift the blight of bad housing, poor education, and unemployment from our cities.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Memorandum of Disapproval of the District of Columbia Crime Bill

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