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On the recordMarch 5, 1968
No enlightened Nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can sit idly by and permit this shocking situation to continue.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Problems of the American Indian: 'The Forgotten American.'

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