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Lyndon Johnson: “Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”

On the recordMay 21, 1964
Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the University of Michigan

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