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On the recordMarch 30, 1965
Today about 40 percent of our government's economic development assistance overseas is in the form of agricultural commodities and local currencies received from their sale.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress on the Food for Peace Program.

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