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On the recordAugust 26, 1966
When the chairman of the Texas Board of Regents told me yesterday that he just floated $4 million worth of a bond issue, because the buildings were bursting at the seams and they just had to have more facilities because so many more people were going to college, I thought of the nights that we worked all night long on payrolls for Texas colleges in order to keep NYA kids in school in 1935 and 1936.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch

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