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Lyndon Johnson: “It does not matter whether the issue is our commitment in Vietnam, or a tax increase to head off the costly tax of…”

On the recordNovember 17, 1967
It does not matter whether the issue is our commitment in Vietnam, or a tax increase to head off the costly tax of inflation, or import quotas that threaten our agricultural exports--Herschel Newsom and the great National Grange organization have always chosen the course of responsibility.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Delivered by Telephone to the Centennial Convention of the National Grange.

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