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Lyndon Johnson: “I would rather be 3 hours late because people wanted to see me than to be 3 hours early because there was nobody there.”

On the recordSeptember 27, 1964
I would rather be 3 hours late because people wanted to see me than to be 3 hours early because there was nobody there.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Manchester to the Members of the New Hampshire Weekly Newspaper Editors Association

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