03/02/1966
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"This is a free country. This is a democratic country."
"With the signing of this bill this morning, we are going to end that inequity."
"At long last we are going to give the dedicated women of our Armed Forces the equal treatment and the equal opportunity that they should have had from the very beginning."
"As Dr. Samuel Johnson once observed, 'Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.'"