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On the recordMay 19, 1966
What has happened is the chronicle of a people beginning to realize that what is written in the books of their laws should also be written in the daily chapters of their lives.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks by Telephone to the Convention of the United Automobile Workers.

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