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Lyndon Johnson: “So tonight, here in the First House of the Land, we have come to celebrate these great institutions of our Government.”

On the recordJanuary 24, 1968
So tonight, here in the First House of the Land, we have come to celebrate these great institutions of our Government.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts at a Dinner Honoring the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the Chief Justice

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