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On the recordSeptember 12, 1966
This act could help us lead to a better day and I hope it will:--a day when some form of voluntary service to the community and the Nation and the world is as common in America as going to school; when no man has truly lived who only served himself.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at Georgetown University at the Signing of a Bill Extending the Peace Corps Act

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