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On the recordSeptember 22, 1966
Thomas Jefferson called his days in the Presidency \a splendid misery\"--and sometimes I agree.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966

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