Where hunger, disease and ignorance abound, the conditions of violence breed.
Lyndon Johnson: “Where hunger, disease and ignorance abound, the conditions of violence breed.”
On the recordJanuary 21, 1968
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Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Reports on the Foreign Assistance Program for 1966 and 1967.
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