I do not advocate and, of course, realize that we cannot return to the America that I knew when I was a boy.
Lyndon Johnson: “I do not advocate and, of course, realize that we cannot return to the America that I knew when I was a boy.”
On the recordNovember 2, 1965
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Remarks at the Post Office, Hye, Texas, at the Swearing In of Lawrence F. O'Brien as Postmaster General.
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