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On the recordFebruary 28, 1968
I proposed the Intergovernmental Manpower Act--to help you train specialists and administrators, and to let us exchange some of our best people--on a temporary basis-so that they might learn to work more effectively together.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Opening the Midyear Conference of Governors of the States and Territories.

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