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Lyndon Johnson: “But I had the best personnel man in the Government look far and wide throughout the land.”

On the recordJanuary 15, 1967
But I had the best personnel man in the Government look far and wide throughout the land.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Alan S. Boyd as Secretary of the New Department of Transportation.

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