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Lyndon Johnson: “To store drugs and poisons within easy reach of children, or to store them along side of food, is as foolish as leaving…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1966
To store drugs and poisons within easy reach of children, or to store them along side of food, is as foolish as leaving a loaded pistol lying around the house—and as dangerous.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3701—National Poison Prevention Week, 1966

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