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Lyndon Johnson: “Our hopes for the handicapped can be realized if the employers of this Nation will but consider all job applicants…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1964
Our hopes for the handicapped can be realized if the employers of this Nation will but consider all job applicants, regardless of handicaps, solely on the basis of their qualifications to do the job.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3611—National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1964

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