Lyndon Johnson: “What we celebrate on October 12 is not the fact that one Italian…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1966

What we celebrate on October 12 is not the fact that one Italian discovered America, but that five million American-Italians discovered America.

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Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Columbus Day Dinner in Brooklyn

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Lyndon Johnson: “What we celebrate on October 12 is not the fact that one Italian discovered America, but that five million…”