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Lyndon Johnson: “America will prevail not because her pocketbooks are big, but because the principles of her people are strong.”

On the recordDecember 29, 1963
America will prevail not because her pocketbooks are big, but because the principles of her people are strong.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Austin at the Dedication of the Agudas Achim Synagogue.

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