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Lyndon Johnson: “If we can do as well by the Nation as I believe we are doing by the Council, the country is in for the best times that…”

On the recordNovember 15, 1964
If we can do as well by the Nation as I believe we are doing by the Council, the country is in for the best times that we have ever had over the next several years.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Gardner Ackley as Chairman and Arthur Okun as Member of the Council of Economic Advisers

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