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On the recordMarch 9, 1966
Nothing in our proud heritage surpasses the significance of that great struggle for freedom nearly two hundred years ago.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Proposing the Establishment of an American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

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