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Lyndon Johnson: “We do not want to check our economic expansion unless that is absolutely necessary, but one thing is clear and one thing…”

On the recordMarch 30, 1966
We do not want to check our economic expansion unless that is absolutely necessary, but one thing is clear and one thing is imperative: Our expansion must continue to be orderly.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Before the National Legislative Conference of the National League of Cities.

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