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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
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Columbus Day Proclamation.

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