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On the recordSeptember 7, 1966
Our overburdened and underfinanced mass transportation systems were nearing paralysis.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Urban Mass Transportation Act

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