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Lyndon Johnson: “We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the…”

On the recordAugust 16, 1965
We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the companion of progress.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the Fourth Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress.

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