Lyndon Johnson actually said...

When you can triple manpower and when you can more than double aid to poverty in one administration, it is something that you are not justified in saying is being completely neglected.

Context

Remarks at a Ceremony Inaugurating a Program of Community Service Projects for Older Americans.

02/14/1968

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