Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I said that we must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

Remarks in Atlantic City at the Convention of the American Association of School Administrators

02/15/1966

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To pass a law is not to achieve a final result. To spend money is not to guarantee success.

So, the first thing we should pledge ourselves to do is to take the profit out of poverty.

But I do know this: it must not--and will not--take us forever.

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