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On the recordJune 7, 1964
So as you leave this campus today, I want to remind you of another admonition President Wilson gave to the Swarthmore class of an earlier generation: 'Do not forget, then, as you walk these classic places, why you are here.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Address at the Centennial Commencement of Swarthmore College

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