03/22/1966
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"Recognizing the trials we have endured and are enduring, I have turned to the Thanksgiving Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln in 1863."
"They are the enemies of constructive action."
"George Meany has been busy remaking American history since his young manhood."
"With the signing of this bill this morning, we are going to end that inequity."