Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

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

04/29/1964

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