Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We must never forget Thomas Jefferson's proud and confident declaration of the meaning of the American Revolution in the whole long sweep of human history.

Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Proposing the Establishment of an American Revolution...

03/09/1966

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