Lyndon Johnson said...

Each departure from the ideal--whether it was deliberate or not, and we won't spend a lot of time debating whether it was deliberate--left a great scar on the thing we take so much pride in, that we call American justice.

Context

Remarks Upon Signing the Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968

03/26/1968

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