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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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