Lyndon Johnson actually said...

One of the first contributions I made in the legislative field when I came to Washington was when we passed the first minimum wage bill through the Congress of the United States.

Context

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

09/22/1966

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