Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It will provide a challenge and an opportunity for teachers with a sense of mission-those best suited to the momentous tasks this Nation faces in improving education.

Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Proposed Teaching Professions Bill.

07/16/1965

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