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Lyndon Johnson: “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.”

On the recordFebruary 11, 1967
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial.

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