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On the recordApril 7, 1968
The promise of the Americas is to establish in this Hemisphere societies free from the fear of want, ignorance, prejudice and disease.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3844—Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1968

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