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Lyndon Johnson: “This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because…”

On the recordApril 28, 1964
This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because justice and morality demand it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to a Group of Civil Rights Leaders

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