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Lyndon Johnson: “Men, women and children are alive today who would otherwise have died.”

On the recordMarch 30, 1967
Men, women and children are alive today who would otherwise have died.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3774—Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1967

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