On the recordAugust 9, 1966
A Great Society cannot rest on the achievements of the past.
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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker Transmitting Report of Task Force on Federal Flood Control Policy
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Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.
It is the living and the eternal theme of the United States of America--a Nation that has been made great by an infusion and mingling of all the cultures of the world.
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