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Lyndon Johnson: “It is time we stopped talking about these problems and started doing something about them.”

On the recordJanuary 8, 1964
It is time we stopped talking about these problems and started doing something about them.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Identical Remarks at Meetings With the Business Committee for Tax Reduction and With the Citizens Committee for Tax...

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