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Lyndon Johnson: “We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”

On the recordSeptember 20, 1965
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of a Bill Establishing the Assateague Island Seashore National Park

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