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On the recordMarch 31, 1965
I have not come to ask, I have come to tell, and I want you to do the same thing.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Henry H. Fowler as Secretary of the Treasury.

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