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Lyndon Johnson: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

On the recordMarch 2, 1966
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of the Chairman and Members of the National Council on the Humanities.

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