Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It means that a high school senior anywhere in this great land of ours can apply to any college or any university in any of the 50 States and not be turned away because his family is poor.

Context

Remarks at Southwest Texas State College Upon Signing the Higher Education Act of 1965

11/07/1965

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