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Lyndon Johnson: “So it is up to us and other free men to convince those who seize hunger, sickness, and poverty as an excuse for…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1966
So it is up to us and other free men to convince those who seize hunger, sickness, and poverty as an excuse for aggression; who believe that might makes right--those Communists who think that they can invade their neighbor and gobble up free hungry people.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport in Dayton, Ohio

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