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Lyndon Johnson: “This country is not going to turn away from the needs of the jobless and the hungry, the poor and the oppressed.”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1964
This country is not going to turn away from the needs of the jobless and the hungry, the poor and the oppressed.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Cadillac Square, Detroit

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