Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I hope and I expect that this milestone measure will serve us as a beneficial forerunner of many other steps forward in meeting the present challenges of metropolitan life in America.

Context

Remarks Upon Signing the Urban Mass Transportation Act

07/08/1964

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