Lyndon Johnson actually said...

So I say to you tonight, wherever you live, whatever you do, whatever your I.Q. or however big your bank deposit, there is a place for you in the army, in the army of Americans that are fighting the war--fighting the war against poverty and disease, fighting the war against illiteracy and against bigotry.

05/06/1964

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