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On the recordJuly 1, 1965
The time for talking and dreaming and philosophizing and writing platforms is gone, and the time for doing things instead of talking about them is here.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in New York City Before the Convention of the National Education Association.

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No man could serve where I have served now for more than 4 years and 5 long months--in this great office of all the people--without sensing that we are once again in 'a new time.'

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