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Lyndon Johnson: “Often you were the first to carry the Federal writ into lawless communities.”

On the recordSeptember 26, 1966
Often you were the first to carry the Federal writ into lawless communities.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the Second National Conference of United States Marshals.

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