Lyndon Johnson actually said...

That bill guaranteed a minimum hourly wage--the munificent, magnificent sum of 25 cents an hour--25 cents an hour!

Remarks at the Signing of the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966

09/22/1966

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I have devoted much of my 30 years of public career to the conservation of America's natural resources.

And no man had more vision, more courage, more optimism, more faith, or did more to help build modern America than Robert S. Kerr.

America's strength has never been the strength of arms alone.

The truth is simple and the truth is this: Our beloved Nation was never stronger than it is this hour tonight.