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Lyndon Johnson: “Today the war on poverty has already helped nine million poor Americans.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1966
Today the war on poverty has already helped nine million poor Americans.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Verrazano Monument, Staten Island, New York

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