So, we are committed to win the wars that we have declared on the ancient enemies of mankind: ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and disease.
Lyndon Johnson: “So, we are committed to win the wars that we have declared on the ancient enemies of mankind: ignorance, illiteracy…”
On the recordJuly 21, 1965
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Remarks to the Members of the World Press Institute
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