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Lyndon Johnson: “No nation can stand idly by while millions suffer and die from afflictions which we have the power to prevent.”

On the recordJune 9, 1964
No nation can stand idly by while millions suffer and die from afflictions which we have the power to prevent.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Commencement Address at Holy Cross College.

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