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Lyndon Johnson: “We are a rich, strong and abundant society and we must not allow any of our people to be left behind--or left out.”

On the recordMarch 31, 1965
We are a rich, strong and abundant society and we must not allow any of our people to be left behind--or left out.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letters to the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce on the Unemployment Record for March.

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