Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Therefore, I request each of you to encourage each Government Committee Chairman in your department or agency to carry on whatever contact with his citizen counterpart helpfully enlarges the scope of our own thinking.

Context

Memorandum Concerning the Recommendations of the White House Conference on International Cooperation

08/03/1966

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