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Lyndon Johnson: “There is a quality in art which speaks across the gulf dividing man from man and nation from nation, and century from…”

On the recordDecember 1, 1964
There is a quality in art which speaks across the gulf dividing man from man and nation from nation, and century from century.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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