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Lyndon Johnson: I don't want to make a speech about it, but the one thing that I really want to do in the few months or few years I may…

On the recordJanuary 19, 1968
I don't want to make a speech about it, but the one thing that I really want to do in the few months or few years I may be in the Presidency is get a good, inexpensive house where poor people can live under sanitary conditions.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Press on Announcing a Plan for a Pilot Health and Housing Project in Washington

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