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On the recordAugust 3, 1965
And we think, as Emerson once put it, 'that our civilization is near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to College Students Employed by the Government During the Summer

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