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Lyndon Johnson: “For our efforts to build a great society in this Nation are being opposed by those who suffer from a handicap not of the…”

On the recordApril 29, 1964
For our efforts to build a great society in this Nation are being opposed by those who suffer from a handicap not of the body or the mind, but of the soul.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped

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