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Lyndon Johnson: “I said, 'Where are your 150?' They said, 'They are out there with 1,850 more.'”

On the recordDecember 13, 1967
I said, 'Where are your 150?' They said, 'They are out there with 1,850 more.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Smithsonian Institution at a Ceremony Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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