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Lyndon Johnson: “That doesn't mean, because we are compassionate, we have to be wasteful.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1964
That doesn't mean, because we are compassionate, we have to be wasteful.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to Members of the Budget Bureau Staff at the Signing of the 1965 Budget

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