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On the recordOctober 6, 1964
If you will give us the mandate, if you, by your vote, will give us your approval, we will go back to that Capital City on the Potomac and we will take the programs that were started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and carried on by Harry S. Truman, and advanced by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and we will build a greater America.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Peoria at the Convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor

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