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On the recordOctober 5, 1964
I am freer tonight than I was when I was that boy’s age, because we didn’t have groceries on the table and we were chasing rabbits for food for our children.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Raleigh at North Carolina State College

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