Lyndon Johnson: “Far too many citizens on social security-more than one-third of the…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1966

Far too many citizens on social security-more than one-third of the total-exist on incomes below the poverty line.

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Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Social Security Administration Headquarters in Baltimore

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Lyndon Johnson: “Far too many citizens on social security-more than one-third of the total-exist on incomes below the poverty line.”