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Lyndon Johnson: “The poor and the unemployed, through special education and training, are being given a chance to stand on their own two…”

On the recordApril 20, 1967
The poor and the unemployed, through special education and training, are being given a chance to stand on their own two feet.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Message to the Congress Transmitting First Annual Report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education

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