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Lyndon Johnson: “I am not describing a distant Utopia, but I am describing the kind of education which must be the great and the urgent…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 1966
I am not describing a distant Utopia, but I am describing the kind of education which must be the great and the urgent work of our time.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Atlantic City at the Convention of the American Association of School Administrators

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