It has demonstrated the desire of the people in the United States to end discrimination and to end it in every corner of our national life.
Lyndon Johnson: “It has demonstrated the desire of the people in the United States to end discrimination and to end it in every corner of…”
On the recordSeptember 21, 1966
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Remarks at the Signing of the Columbus Day Proclamation.
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