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Lyndon Johnson: “It does not ask: 'Where were you born?' But rather it does ask: 'What skills can you perform?'”

On the recordSeptember 21, 1966
It does not ask: 'Where were you born?' But rather it does ask: 'What skills can you perform?'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Columbus Day Proclamation.

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