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Lyndon Johnson: “We know all too well that racketeers in this field are making easy victims of many of our finest young people.”

On the recordJuly 14, 1965
We know all too well that racketeers in this field are making easy victims of many of our finest young people.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Drug Abuse Control Amendments Bill

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