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Lyndon Johnson: “Yet tonight there are more than 2,700,000 major crimes being committed in this Nation every year.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1966
Yet tonight there are more than 2,700,000 major crimes being committed in this Nation every year.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the Conference of State Committees on Criminal Administration.

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