Lyndon Johnson: “The ideal of equal opportunity, I believe, is the bedrock ideal of our…”

On the recordJuly 6, 1964

The ideal of equal opportunity, I believe, is the bedrock ideal of our society and of our system.

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Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Members of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Upon Receiving Their Report.

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