Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This is an attack from which we cannot turn back, for to do so would be to condemn thousands of our fellow citizens to lives of degradation and despair.

Context

Letter Commending Federal and Local Groups Participating in an Urban Renewal Project in New York City.

10/13/1965

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