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Lyndon Johnson: “The war on poverty in America has more ultimate meaning, I think, throughout the world than a thousand supermarkets.”

On the recordOctober 21, 1966
The war on poverty in America has more ultimate meaning, I think, throughout the world than a thousand supermarkets.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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