Lyndon Johnson actually said...

In every one of those days I have tried with all that God has given me to do my dead level best, to do what I thought was right.

Remarks at a Rally in Houston

11/01/1964

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I said that it is to help the Negro fulfill the rights which, after a very long time of injustice, he is finally able to secure.

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