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Lyndon Johnson: “An India free from want and deprivation, will, as Mahatma Gandhi himself once predicted, 'be a mighty force for the good…”

On the recordMarch 29, 1966
An India free from want and deprivation, will, as Mahatma Gandhi himself once predicted, 'be a mighty force for the good of mankind.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress Proposing an Emergency Food Aid Program for India

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