Political Quotes

On the recordMay 10, 1966
The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows, above all, that his task is, in the language of the current generation, to 'cool it'.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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