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On the recordMarch 28, 1968
It may be that our most important constituents are not our contemporaries, but the men and women who will inherit America from us in twenty years or fifty years.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Urging the Addition of New Areas to the Nation's...

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