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Lyndon Johnson: “It advances the civil rights of those who still reach for their full, and what we believe their proper, place in our…”

On the recordMarch 26, 1968
It advances the civil rights of those who still reach for their full, and what we believe their proper, place in our society.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Signing the Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968

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