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Lyndon Johnson: “Can we let it be said that man, who can travel into space and explore the stars, cannot feed his own?”

On the recordMarch 29, 1966
Can we let it be said that man, who can travel into space and explore the stars, cannot feed his own?
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress Proposing an Emergency Food Aid Program for India

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